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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-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...
...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 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...
...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...
...Because the U.S. plane was being tracked by a pair of F-8s - a homegrown version of the Russians' venerable MiG-21 - there was talk that an effort by the crew of the EP-3 to avoid one of the F-8s might have inadvertently led to a collision with the second. But Navy officials both in Washington and at Pacific Command headquarters in Hawaii said there was no evidence yet that such a "pinching" movement took place...
...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...