Article titleChinese and US aircraft in 'unsafe' encounter

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: CNN

Washington (CNN)Two US defense officials told CNN that there was an "unsafe" close encounter between a US Navy P-3 Orion aircraft and a Chinese surveillance aircraft Wednesday.

One official said the Chinese plane was a People's Liberation Army Air Force KJ-200.

The two planes flew within 1,000 feet of each other in the general vicinity of the contested Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea.

A spokesperson for US Pacific Command, which oversees US troops in the region confirmed, the incident, calling it "unsafe" in a statement provided to CNN.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/09/politics/us-china-aircraft-unsafe-encounter/index.html

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Didn't some thing like this happen under Bush II?

[former9thward]

1. It happened under Obama too.

Chinese and Russians constantly test our defenses and we do the same thing.

[olddad56]

4. on April 15, 1969, North Korea shot down one of our planes and killed 31 people.

It was actually April 16th where it happened. I was stationed in that naval aviation squadron at the time, and was an enlisted crewmen that flew on those missions. You can blame the one in 69 directly on Richard Nixon. This has been going on since the 50s. When they shoot one down and kill another 31 people, you will be able to blame it on Trump's stupidity.

It gets pretty real when you wake up one morning and all these people that you knew and worked with are gone. Almost 48 years ago and it seems like yesterday.

[TexasProgresive]

2. This was a much safer encounter. The one under Dubya envolved delta winged interceptor jets.

The EP3 can go fairly slow but the jets not so much. Somehow one of the Chinese jets got hit by one of the props, I think and went down. I think the pilot was lost. The EP3 was damaged severely hand had to land on Chinese territory where the crew was taken. They held the plane long enough to learn a lot of it's capabilities and perhaps some of what intelligence it had gathered.

[elmac]

3. Will China test sniffles like they did Bush?

another Hainan Island incident and will sniffles fall all over himself and apologize like Bush did.

[denbot]

5. Within a few months of 'W's" tough guy's farce, Chinese fighters forced down a US EP-2 Orion.

They took it apart, collated signal intelligence against actual US hardware, and maneuvered Bush the lessor to apologize for the worst intellect breech since Aldrin Ames, and the KH-11 satellite.

That was an intelligence disaster, but far better than having a President installed by Russia.


Sad, really.

[Javaman]

6. meh, there is so much shit going on over there...

with a lot of air craft in the sky. I'm surprised this didn't happen sooner.

[Eugene]

7. Pentagon says US, Chinese air encounter unintentional

Source: Associated Press

Pentagon says US, Chinese air encounter unintentional

By GILLIAN WONG
Feb. 10, 2017 8:17 PM EST

BEIJING (AP) — The Pentagon said a close encounter between a Chinese early warning aircraft and a U.S. Navy patrol plane over the South China Sea appeared to be unintentional and both pilots maintained professional radio contact, in the first such incident known to have taken place under President Donald Trump's administration.

A Chinese KJ-200 flew within 1,000 feet (305 meters) of a U.S. Navy P-3C in international airspace over Scarborough Shoal near the Philippines on Wednesday, Pentagon spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis told reporters in Washington.

He said the Chinese aircraft "crossed the nose" of the P-3, forcing it to make an immediate turn.

"We don't see any evidence that it was intentional," he said, adding that the incident was a "one-off." He said both pilots were in "normal radio contact" and their communication "professional."

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