NEWS Chinese aircraft performed 'unsafe' manoeuvre near U.S. plane -Pentagon

A Chinese aircraft performed an unsafe manoeuvre during an air intercept of a U.S. spy plane last week, a Pentagon spokesman said on Tuesday, an incident revealed just as Chinese President Xi Jinping kicks off a week-long U.S. visit. The intercept occurred on Sept. 15, about 80 miles east of the Shandong peninsula in the Yellow Sea and involved an American RC-135 reconnaissance plane, said Peter Cook, the Pentagon spokesman. "The pilot reported that he felt ... the (Chinese) aircraft passed in front of his nose in an unsafe fashion," Cook said. "There's no indication this was a near collision."

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