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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. The EP-3 was flying over the South China sea ...
The Lockheed EP-3 is an electronic signals reconnaissance variant of the P-3 Orion, primarily operated by the United States Navy.
2 kwi 2021 · On Apr. 1, 2001, a US Navy EP-3E Aries II (BuNo 156511), assigned to VQ-1 collided with a People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) J-8II interceptor over the South China Sea, 110 km off Hainan island. The Chinese jet and its pilot, Lt. Cmdr. Wang Wei, were lost while the damaged US plane made an emergency landing on Hainan Island.
10 paź 2001 · The serious incident of April 2001 between the United States and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) involved a collision over the South China Sea between a U.S. Navy EP-3 reconnaissance plane and a People’s Liberation Army (PLA) naval F-8 fighter that crashed.
On Sunday 1 April 2001, a United States Navy EP-3 surveillance plane a Chinese F-8 fighter jet over the South China Seas.1 The incident mately 70 nautical miles south-east of China's Hainan Island,2 in the China's claimed 200 mile Exclusive Economic Zone.3 The damaged crashed into the sea.
6 mar 2023 · On this day a United States Navy EP-3E ARIES II signals intelligence aircraft (a spy plane) collided mid-air with a J-8II interceptor fighter jet of the People’s Liberation Army Navy (a Chinese fighter plane).
1 kwi 2021 · The Chinese refused to allow the EP-3E to be repaired and flown off the island, but agreed to allow technicians from Lockheed Martin to travel to Hainan Island to dismantle the plane. Beginning in June 2001, Lockheed Martin officials took the plane apart and loaded it on board two Russian Antonov-124 cargo jets to be flown to Kadena Air Base ...
