The incident occurred in airspace along the edge of the East China Sea and Yellow Sea west of the Korean Peninsula and involved a Navy EP-3 aircraft and two Chinese J-10s.
A Navy surveillance plane dodged a Chinese jet with “evasive action” Sunday after the Chinese plane flew beneath it at a high rate of speed and then pulled in front of it, U. S. defense officials said.
The incident occurred late Sunday morning local time in airspace along the edge of the East China Sea and Yellow Sea west of the Korean Peninsula. It involved a Navy EP-3 aircraft and two Chinese J-10s, multi-role fighter jets that are sometimes compared to Air Force F-15s. The actions of one of the J-10s prompted the reaction by the EP-3 after an alarm system went off, said Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman.
“It was forced to take evasive action to prevent the possibility of collision, ” Davis said of the Navy plane.
The interaction marks at least the third time in recent months that a Chinese jet has buzzed a U.
