In an open-air space like this, though, there is only so much his men can do.
Other officials said the drone had spent about 20 minutes in Israeli air space.
No unmanned aircraft in the U.S. arsenal today would survive long in Chinese air space.
Without China's permission, the crippled U.S. plane then entered Chinese air space and landed at 9:33 a.m.
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International flights are subject to severe disruption, and US air space is still closed to civilian flights.
Islamabad says the plane was shot down after it violated Pakistani air space.
It also maintains a naval blockade and controls Gaza's air space, which it says is necessary for Israel's security.
Once Polish air space was entered, the Polish aviation authority would secretly shepherd the flight, leaving no public documentation.
Mr Little insisted that the drone had never been into Iranian air space.
Saudi Arabia also warned Iran Friday that it will no longer tolerate Iranian war planes intruding into Saudi air space.
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He was scheduled to give the address Tuesday night at the USS Intrepid Sea Air Space Museum in New York.
Austria is officially neutral, though it has allowed the U.S. military to use its air space in the anti-terror campaign.
Both the air cargo and drone operations depend primarily on access to Pakistani air space, which Islamabad has kept open.
The U.S. government has warned the group that it will seize any ship that violates Cuban air space or territorial waters.
Last year, the Iranians captured a US drone they said had invaded their air space and refused to give it back.
In 1998, Brazil's Congress approved a law allowing the air force to shoot down planes that enter Brazilian air space illegally.
The militants reportedly attacked the Algerian facility because Algeria permitted France to use its air space to attack militants in Mali.
However, most of the concrete problems between the two countries, such as disagreements over sea-bed exploration rights and air space, remain unresolved.
Israel closed its air space to foreign planes, closed land crossings and evacuated staff from diplomatic missions and Jewish institutions around the world.
Cuba said it downed the two Brothers to the Rescue planes last weekend after warning the aircraft not to violate Cuban air space.
In 1995 he had his air force shoot down a hot air balloon that had strayed into his air space, killing two Americans.
The defence department said the drone was not damaged in the incident, which it said took place in international air space on 1 November.
The militants said they carried out the operation because Algeria allowed French forces to use its air space in attacking Islamist militants in Mali.
But the government is still discussing how to enforce it: the trouble is that Brazil still lacks the means to monitor its Amazonian air space.
Russia's military deployments do though present some practical problems for the West, not least for Washington which has an active air campaign under way in Syrian air space.
Algeria has been allowing French aircraft to use its air space.
Because officials were concerned about a terrorist attack on the embattled islands, the presidential airplane, Air Force One, was shepherded into Philippine air space by F-15s.
He found out via the FAA, who publish Special Use alerts for these sorts of tests, warning others to stay out of the air space in question.
Shortly after the attack, India banned Pakistan's national airline from flying in Indian air space and reduced by half India's diplomatic staff in Islamabad and Pakistan's diplomats in Delhi.
"We must move away from this blanket closure and find ways to flexibly open air space, step by step, " IATA head Giovanni Bisignani told a news briefing in Paris.
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