Jiang Xiaoyu(C), the executive vice president for the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2008 Olympic Games (BOCOG), steps down the chartered plane with the lantern which holds the Olympic flame at the airport in Istanbul, Turkey, April 3, 2008.

Jiang Xiaoyu (C), the executive vice president of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2008 Olympic Games (BOCOG), shows the lantern which holds the Olympic flame in the cabin of the chartered plane at the airport in Istanbul, Turkey, April 3, 2008.

Jiang Xiaoyu (L), the executive vice president of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2008 Olympic Games (BOCOG), shows the lantern which holds the Olympic flame with Ergun Gungor, vice governor of Istanbul province at the airport in Istanbul, Turkey, April 3, 2008.

Jiang Xiaoyu (R), the executive vice president of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2008 Olympic Games (BOCOG), shows the lantern which holds the Olympic flame in the cabin of the chartered plane at the airport in Istanbul, Turkey, April 3, 2008.

Jiang Xiaoyu (L front), the executive vice president of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2008 Olympic Games (BOCOG) shakes hands with people at the airport in Istanbul, Turkey, April 3, 2008.

The chartered plane which carries the Olympic flame arrives at the airport in Istanbul, Turkey, April 3, 2008.

(Xinhua News Agency April 3, 2008)