An airplane evacuating as many as 240 Americans from a Chinese city at the centre of a virus outbreak has landed in the U.S.
The U.S. government chartered the plane to fly out diplomats from the U.S. Consulate in Wuhan, where the latest coronavirus outbreak started, and other U.S. citizens. The plane is making a refuelling stop in Alaska, where it landed Tuesday night, before flying on to southern California.
"In the wintertime, we have the ability and the luxury of not having any passenger traffic over there, so it's a perfect area for us to handle this kind of flight," he said. The white cargo plane with red and gold stripes arrived in Anchorage at the mostly desolate North Terminal just after 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, local time. The jetway was extended from the end of the terminal, but it also had no windows. Passengers were not visible. Media were held in a concourse between the airport's two terminals, about 100 yards from the plane. Airport workers were buzzing around the plane after it landed.
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