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China appears to have staged a remarkable replay of the May 2001 EP-3 incident in which a Chinese supersonic fighter jet provocatively approached and caused a collision with a U.S. EP-3 surveillance plane.
A Chinese air force Su-27 supersonic combat aircraft, armed with missiles, on May 24, deliberately flew dangerously close to two Japanese surveillance planes in international airspace.
The 2001 incident caused a mid-air crash killing the Chinese pilot Wang Wei and forcing the U.S. EP-3 to crash land on China’s Hainan island.
The two Japanese planes, a P-3C and a YS-11EB, both electronic surveillance aircraft based in Atsugi, Japan, were on routine flights last weekend to monitor the ongoing Chinese-Russian joint exercise in the East China Sea off the coast of Shanghai.
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