Chinese planes make historic flight to Taiwan

Chinese planes touched down in Taiwan today, completing the first non-stop flights between the rivals since a bloody civil war split the two sides 56 years ago.

Chinese planes make historic flight to Taiwan

Chinese planes touched down in Taiwan today, completing the first non-stop flights between the rivals since a bloody civil war split the two sides 56 years ago.

A pilot smiled and waved from his cockpit window after landing his China Southern Airlines plane, which took off from the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou carrying 277 Taiwanese businesspeople and their families home for the Lunar New Year holiday.

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