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SPY PLANE STANDOFF
AFP
Monday 9 April 2001, 11:16 AM
A Chinese fighter pilot requested permission to
shoot down a US spy plane after seeing it
collide with his comrade's jet, a Hong Kong
newspaper said today.
Pilot Zhao Yu was refused permission and
instead manoeuvred to force the American
plane, which was attempting to fly away from
China, to land at an airbase, the South China
Morning Post quoted Chinese sources as
saying.
The 24 crew members of the US crew and their
EP-3 Aries surveillance plane have been
detained in the southern province of Hainan for
more than a week.
The sources also told the English language
paper that when the American plane landed at
the Lingshui airbase, a Chinese officer wrestled
a US airman to the ground to gain access to the
craft.
On Friday, Zhao told Chinese television he and fellow
pilot Wang Wei had
been tracking the spy plane closely in their fighter jets
when the larger
aircraft veered abruptly, smashing into Wang's plane.
Wang parachuted from his stricken jet, but has been
missing, presumed
dead, since the collision eight days ago.
The Post's source said, however, that after the collision
in international air
space, Zhao radioed to military ground control for
permission to shoot
down the spy plane.
The source said this was refused.
"The officials at ground control were cool headed," one
source told the
paper.
"It would have been an act of war, whereas the collision
was an accident."
The sources said after the collision the US plane
attempted to fly northeast,
away from China, but Zhao forced it to land in Hainan.
When the American plane landed, its crew refused to allow
the Chinese
onto the craft without US diplomats present, the sources
added.
"Then a senior officer arrived, walked up the stairs and
wrestled a US crew
member guarding the entrance," the paper reported.
"The officer threw the airman to the ground, enabling the
PLA (People's
Liberation Army) to enter."
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