SHENZHEN Airlines on Tuesday transported 800 letters from students of 40 U.S. schools to children affected by the devastating Sichuan earthquake.
Shenzhen Airlines was commissioned by the State of Washington to carry the letters, along with other disaster relief supplies, in a Boeing 737-800 aircraft, which the airline recently purchased from the Washington-based Boeing.
“We hope to bring the friendship and greetings of U.S. students to the quake-affected children,¡” Pan Jiang, vice general manager of the Flight Department of Shenzhen Airlines, was quoted by the Shenzhen Special Zone Daily as saying after the aircraft landed at the Shenzhen airport.
Some provided their postal addresses hoping to make friends with children in the disaster-hit areas.
It was the second time Shenzhen Airlines had transported relief supplies from the United States to Sichuan. The first flight arrived in the quake-hit areas May 27.
(Wang Yuanyuan)