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Article: Disassembled Navy Plane Scheduled to Leave China Today
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- July 3, 2001
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A U.S. Navy EP-3 reconnaissance plane will come home in pieces
from China this week, marking the end of an incident that shook U.S.-
Chinese relations, a Navy spokeswoman said.
A chartered Antonov-124 cargo plane will carry the disassembled
Navy plane on a multi-hop, 20-hour flight from Hainan Island, China,
through Manila and Honolulu to Georgia, said Lt. Cmdr. Cate Mueller.
The Russian-made cargo plane is expected to leave China today at 8
a.m. EDT, one official said. It is scheduled to arrive Thursday at
Lockheed Martin Corp.'s plant in Marietta, Ga., where the EP-3 will
be reassembled over a period of months.
The An-124 cargo jet already made one flight Sunday from China to
Kadena Air ...