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Sichuan hero captain set to land on screens

The Chinese Pilot, starring actor Zhang Hanyu, is about Liu Chuanjian, the captain who last year saved 119 passengers on a Sichuan Airlines flight when the windshield shattered and his copilot was sucked halfway out of the cockpit over the Tibetan Plateau. It will hit theaters on Sept 30. Liu was hailed as the "hero captain of China's civil aviation".He was an instructor with the People's Liberation Army Air Force No 2 Flight College in Sichuan province for 10 years before he joined the airline in 2006.

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