Beijing Capital International Airport's operations director, Wei Changlong, received the coordination notice at 7:14 AM local time.
He read it once. Then he picked up his phone and called the Civil Aviation Administration of China's northern regional office before setting the document down.
The call lasted four minutes. By the end of it, three things had been arranged: a meeting at the airport's administrative center at 9 AM, a parallel briefing at the Ministry of Transport, and a request upward through channels that Wei didn't need to specify because everyone involved already understood where it was going.
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The 9 AM meeting had eleven people in it.
