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...minutes. The U.S. 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-3'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 8,000 ft. before pilot Shane Osborn regained control. "Mayday! Mayday!" a flyer called into...
...soon, it won't 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 70 miles off China's coast; China considers its sovereign airspace to extend 200 miles offshore, even though international agreements recognize only 12 miles. Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhu Bangzao declared...
...EP-3E? is a description of the plane from the Navy Fact File...
CNN.com's Collision Course: US-China Crash in the Skies? features reports, analysis, a Timeline, and a look at the EP...
...Chinese leadership over how to relate to the U.S. in general, the initial reactions from China were mixed: Some diplomats welcomed Powell's statement as a step in the right direction; others insisted it was not enough. China agreed to further visits to the detained crew members of the EP-3 spy plane, but also revealed that the U.S. personnel were being questioned as part of the Chinese investigation. Still, Powell's letter is an attempt to forge a common approach with Beijing to fashion a mutually acceptable path toward a resolution, and that's something China needs as badly...