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...onboard the dying navy reconnaissance plane when it began to fall out of the sky. The two pilots up front were trying to save the aircraft, while the other 22 crew members in back were trying to destroy what was inside it. Two Chinese F-8 fighters had been tracking the plane closely, too closely, for 10 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...
...wrapped up soon, it won't become a crisis.'" But even Powell had trouble getting through for a private talk with anyone who mattered in Beijing, and the public tone was not encouraging. Chinese officials claimed that the U.S. plane had veered suddenly into the F-8 fighter, even though the EP-3E is about half as fast as and far less nimble than the Chinese jet. The collision had occurred about 110 km off China's coast; China considers its sovereign airspace to extend 320 km offshore, even though international agreements recognize only 19 km. Foreign Ministry spokesman...
...China relations, a small group of China specialists in Washington views the spy-plane incident as the best chance yet to alert the Establishment to Beijing's growing strategic threat to the U.S. "This basically puts a stake through the heart of appeasement," says Edward Timperlake, a former Marine fighter pilot and an author who worked in the Reagan Administration...
...team began investigating the cause of a bombing accident at a military training range in the Kuwaiti desert. Three 227-kg bombs killed five American servicemen and one New Zealander when a U.S. fighter jet missed its target in a training exercise. The F-18 navy plane dropped its load on an observation post and parked cars more than 2 km from its intended target. Investigations will focus on the role of the pilot and the air controller in directing the strike, which wounded up to a dozen others, including Kuwaitis...
KILLED. FIVE U.S. SERVICEMEN and one New Zealand army officer; during training exercises in northwest Kuwait; when a Navy F/A-18 Hornet fighter jet erroneously dropped unguided, 500-lb. bombs on them. The U.S. has sent a team to uncover why the tragedy occurred...