Taipei, Aug. 4 (CNA) The military will dispatch four Mirage 2000 fighter jets to escort some of the Taiwanese athletes who competed at the Olympic Games in Tokyo as they fly home on a China Airlines flight Wednesday afternoon, according to an anonymous military source.
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