{"id":110204,"date":"2017-07-24T15:19:14","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T19:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/?p=110204"},"modified":"2017-07-24T15:19:14","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T19:19:14","slug":"armed-chinese-jets-intercept-us-spy-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/armed-chinese-jets-intercept-us-spy-plane\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed Chinese Jets Intercept US Spy Plane"},"content":{"rendered":"
A US surveillance plane was intercepted by two Chinese fighter jets over the weekend—forcing the US aircraft to take ‘evasive action to avoid collision’, Pentagon officials said Monday.<\/p>\n
The Chinese J-10 jets came within 300 feet of the American EP-3 plane over the East China Sea Sunday.<\/p>\n
“There are intercepts that occur in international airspace regularly, and the vast majority of them are conducted in a safe manner,” Pentagon spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis said. “This was the exception, not the norm.”<\/p>\n
No injuries were reported and the incident is under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A US surveillance plane was intercepted by two Chinese fighter jets over the weekend—forcing the US aircraft to take ‘evasive action to avoid collision’, Pentagon officials said Monday. The Chinese J-10 jets came within 300 feet of the American EP-3 plane over the East China Sea Sunday. “There are intercepts that occur in international airspace […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5409,"featured_media":110205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[4479],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n