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...officials were expected to meet the crew of the downed EP-3E surveillance aircraft on the Chinese island of Hainan, Tuesday, at least 60 hours after they first demanded access. But even if the plane's personnel are safe and quickly returned home, the fact that Chinese officials appear to have boarded and inspected a U.S. aircraft chock-full of America's top-of-the-line electronic intelligence-gathering equipment could be a major setback for the Pentagon. Although the crew is reported to have begun destroying classified data and equipment, it's not yet clear whether...
...flyers even recognized one of the pilots, Wang Wei, a notorious hotdogger who one time flew so close to an American plane that he could be seen holding up his e-mail address on a piece of paper. It was Wang's plane that clipped the EP-3E's left wing, slashed one of its four propellers into pieces and smashed off the plane's nose before spiraling into the South China Sea. Rocked by the collision, the vibrating turboprop plunged 2,350 m before pilot Shane Osborn regained control. "Mayday! Mayday!" a flyer called into the radio...
...become a crisis.'" But even Powell had trouble getting through for a private talk with anyone who mattered in Beijing, and the public tone was not encouraging. Chinese officials claimed that the U.S. plane had veered suddenly into the F-8 fighter, even though the EP-3E is about half as fast as and far less nimble than the Chinese jet. The collision had occurred about 110 km off China's coast; China considers its sovereign airspace to extend 320 km offshore, even though international agreements recognize only 19 km. Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhu Bangzao declared that the plane...
...When satellite photographs showed the plane partly covered in tarps?the better to hide the work of prying Chinese engineers?it confirmed the Administration's fears. While the EP-3E is an old plane, a model that began flying in 1969, its electronic guts are up-to-the-minute. No EP-3E has ever been shot down or captured, even though the "flying pig," as it is called, is a long-range, slow-flying unarmed aircraft. "The most important thing to the Chinese on that airplane was the data we had collected earlier that day," says Norman Polmar, an independent...
...Navy's EP-3E Aries II aircraft is a four-engine, low-wing, electronic warfare and reconnaissance aircraft crammed with state-of-the-art electronic surveillance equipment for its primary eavesdropping mission. Its four Allison T56-A-14 turboprop engines give it the ability to fly 12-hour missions and more than 3,000 miles. It has 24 numbered seating positions - the maximum number of personnel was on board during Saturday's flight...