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Article: Remarks on the United States Navy Aircraft Incident in the South China Sea.(George W. Bush)(Brief Article)(Transcript)
- Article from:
- Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents
- Article date:
- April 9, 2001
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April 2, 2001
Late Saturday night in Washington, Sunday morning in China, a United States naval maritime patrol aircraft on a routine surveillance mission in international airspace over the South China Sea collided with one of two Chinese fighters that were shadowing our plane. Both our aircraft and a Chinese aircraft were damaged in the collision. Our aircraft made an emergency landing at an airfield on China's Hainan Island.
We have been in contact with the Chinese Government about this incident since Saturday night. From our own information, we know that the United States naval plane landed safely. Our Embassy in Beijing has been told by the Chinese ...