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The Chinese balloon, which Beijing denies was a government spy vessel, flew over the US and Canada for a week before president Joe Biden ordered for it to be shot down on 4 February as it flew ...
US military shot down an unidentified “object” above Alaskan airspace less than one week after a large airship, allegedly sent by China to spy on the US mainland, seized the national news ...
US shoots down suspected Chinese spy balloon over Atlantic ocean. Saturday 4 February 2023 19:42, Gustaf Kilander. The US military has shot down the suspected Chinese spy balloon off the Carolina ...
The balloon was shot down over U.S. territorial waters off the coast of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, by an AIM-9X Sidewinder missile fired from a U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor that had departed from Langley Air Force Base; the downing occurred at 2:39 p.m. eastern time.
Shot down Location(s) Incident Circumstances Ref. January 28, 2023 February 4, 2023 USAF F-22. Alaska, Western Canada, and contiguous U.S. 2023 Chinese balloon incident: A Chinese high-altitude surveillance balloon transited Canadian and U.S. airspace before being shot down off the coast of South Carolina by the U.S. Air Force on February 4 ...
This incident is believed to be the first commercial passenger plane attacked by hostile forces. [1] On 24 August 1938 – during the Second Sino-Japanese War – the Kweilin, a DC-2 jointly operated by China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC) and Pan American World Airways, carrying 18 passengers and crew, was forced down by Japanese aircraft in Chinese territory just north of Hong Kong. 15 ...
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The Hainan Island incident was a ten-day international incident between the United States and the People's Republic of China (PRC) that resulted from a mid-air collision between a United States Navy EP-3E ARIES II signals intelligence aircraft and a Chinese Air Force J-8 interceptor on April 1, 2001.