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Article: SAVING FACE.(incident with U.S. Navy spy plane in China)(Brief Article)
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- Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication
- Article date:
- May 4, 2001
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Standoff Ends But Leaves Future U.S.-China Relations Uncertain
BEIJING-April Fools' Day was no laughing matter for the U.S. government. On April 1, a U.S. Navy EP-3E spy plane on a routine surveillance flight over the South China Sea collided with one of two Chinese F-8 fighter jets that had been tailing it. Severely damaged, the U.S. craft plummeted 8,000 feet before pilot Shane Osborn regained control. Other crew members rushed to destroy all top-secret data and equipment on the high-tech EP-3E. The plane, which lost its nose and one of its four propellers in the collision, barely succeeded in making an emergency landing on China's Hainan Island. One of the ...