China sends fighters to ID flights by US and Japan


November 29, 2013 at 1:00p.m.

China sends fighters to ID flights by US and Japan

BEIJING (AP) — China said it launched two fighter planes today to investigate flights by a dozen U.S. and Japanese reconnaissance and military planes in its new maritime air defense zone over the East China Sea. It was the first time since proclaiming the zone on Nov. 23 that China said it sent planes there on the same day as foreign military flights, although it said it merely identified the foreign planes and took no further action.