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Kids get their cockpit thrills

Children were taught the functions of the different buttons used by pilots in a cockpit simulator in Haikou, the capital of Hainan province, on June 1. An instructor briefed them on emergency procedures and countermeasures crews use on commercial flights. The organizer, HNA Tourism, a subsidiary of the Chinese aviation-to-hotels conglomerate HNA Group, held the event in 12 cities across China on the same day in celebration of International Children's Day. More than 500 children and their parents participated in event. Guo Bin, a pupil from Southwest China's Yunnan province, said it was the first time he had seen and handled airplane controls up close.

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