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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...
...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...
...scenes on a face-saving formula to end the spy-plane standoff, because right now it's dangerously deadlocked. President Bush, facing perhaps the most complex crisis of his life, used measured - but obviously exasperated - tones Tuesday to reiterate his insistence that the Chinese send home the damaged EP-3 surveillance plane and its 24 crew members. (There no longer appears to be much point in adding "without further tampering," now that satellite images reportedly show Chinese officials all over it, tinkering with wrenches and the like.) Bush hasn't set any deadlines, although he and his administration are trying...