Zhang Chaoyang's team was forced to stayed in Chengdu due to the sandstorm in Lhasa 转自搜狐 SOHU report: Previously afraid of being delayed by the "SARS" checking, today, China SOHU maintain climbing brigade got to the capital airport in advance. 转自搜狐 Because of the SARS, there was few passenger at the airport. The brigade took the regular flight from Beijing to Chengdu at 9:30am and arrived at arrived in Chengdu at around 12:15am. Staying at Chengdu airport for a while, they went on their trip to Lhasa. 转自搜狐 Unfortunately, 20mintutes before reaching to Lhasa airport, they were informed by the Lhasa airport that Lhasa was structed by sandstorm and the vision was rather poor at the airport. In order to protect all the passengers, the airplane had to return to Chengdu. 转自搜狐 At 4:45pm, the airplane landed on Chengdu airport. 转自搜狐 The brigade led by Zhang decided to stay in Chengdu for a night due to the poor weather and follow the arrangement of the airport. They might restart their flight to Lhasa next day morning. 转自搜狐
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