Almost always, however, one is obliged to fly in a Chinese plane.
In this case, the Chinese plane crashed into the sea.
American military leaders have insisted that Chinese planes were tailing at an unsafe distance.
At dawn next morning two Chinese planes came in and we got almost everyone on board and away.
If it had been a Chinese plane in American territory, he said, "we'd be all over it too, like a bunch of ants."
The confusion between the Chinese planes allowed the Navy fighters to get into missile range.
"A Chinese plane crashed, the pilot is missing, and the people expect the government to do something."
There they boarded a Chinese plane and flew to Peking for preliminary discussions.
The Chinese plane crashed into the waters below.
Forming a defensive wall, they diverted the Chinese planes from their course.