Hundreds on hand to cheer as crew of surveillance plane lands in Hawaii.
A U.S. Navy patrol aircraft has been forced to make an emergency landing in China after what officials describe as a minor mid-air collision with a Chinese fighter jet.
A disassembled U.S. Navy spy plane arrived Thursday at a military air base outside Atlanta after spending three months grounded in China.
The White House has confirmed an agreement in principle with China to dismantle the crippled EP-3 surveillance plane, load the parts in a transport plane and fly it back to the United States.
The 24-member crew of a U.S. Navy surveillance plane that made a harrowing emergency landing in China on April 1 will be awarded medals during a ceremony at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland.
China has told the U.S. that public outrage prohibits it from allowing a damaged U.S. Navy spy plane to fly home.
U.S. technicians who inspected a downed U.S. Navy spy plane in China have briefed military officers in Hawaii.
U.S. civilian experts have concluded that a damaged surveillance plane can be repaired and flown off Hainan Island, Pentagon sources said.
The Chinese military refused to provide a U.S. inspection team with power to assess damage to the Navy surveillance plane grounded on China's Hainan Island, the Pentagon said.
A team of U.S. technicians has landed on the Chinese island of Hainan to inspect the downed spy plane, stranded since it collided with a Chinese fighter jet in April.
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