Air Force transport squadron soars to elite status
By Wang Keju | China Daily | Updated: 2018-10-30 07:36
The Kunlun Eagle Group is increasingly providing assistance overseas. Wang Keju reports from Yichang, Hubei province.
It was 4 am and fog shrouded the southern Indian Ocean, famous for its roaring westerly winds and unsettled weather.
Even though he was flying just 420 meters above the surface of the water and battling heavy turbulence in a bank of cloud, Colonel Li Sheng, pilot of a People's Liberation Army Air Force Ilyushin Il-76 transport plane, decided to descend a further 100 meters.
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