U.S. President George Bush has demanded the return of the crew and the damaged spy plane.
The Nimrod spy plane exploded on 2 September 2006, shortly after undergoing air-to-air refuelling.
In 2001, Mr Powell urged caution when China forced down an American spy plane in Chinese airspace.
This recalled the confusion in 2001 after an American spy plane had collided with a Chinese fighter.
How long ago was it that the two nations were at loggerheads over an American spy plane?
The key moment, though, was when a US spy plane snapped aerial images of one of the launch sites.
Thirdly, Jiang said, the negotiations over the spy plane and the crew should not last more than two weeks.
Flying ten miles high, a new unmanned spy plane will capture moving images never before possible ( see p. 52).
In 2001, a Chinese pilot died and the 24 members of the spy plane's crew were held for 11 days.
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The UK defence ministry said on Friday it was deploying its Sentinel R1 spy plane to support French troops in Mali.
Like AeroVironment's older gadgets, the Switchblade can stream video feeds from color or infrared cameras to its operator, making it a deft spy plane.
The black and white aerial footage, Iran claims was from a RQ-170 spy plane, was aired by Iranian news agencies and placed on YouTube.
The missionaries' aircraft had been spotted by an American spy plane.
It greatly complicated the mid-air collision between a Chinese fighter and an American spy plane in 2001, which the PLA had (wrongly) blamed on the Americans.
For Mr Bush, the mid-air collision of a Chinese fighter with an American spy plane in April 2001 became the first foreign-policy crisis of his presidency.
They add that the spy plane intruded into Chinese airspace after it had suffered damage and that the U.S. crew lost immunity once it landed in China without permission.
The Air Force uses an array of aircraft, such as the U-2 spy plane, the high-altitude Global Hawk drone or satellites and systems that can gather intelligence from space.
Japan, where the U.S. spy plane is based, urged a swift resolution to the standoff, saying good relations between the U.S. and China are vital for the Asia-Pacific region.
American officials have previously cast doubt on Iran's ability to extract useful intelligence from the captured spy plane, and have said that reverse-engineering a copy would be beyond Iran's technological capability.
The most senior Farc commander ever captured, he was sentenced to 60 years in connection with the kidnapping of three US intelligence operatives after their spy plane crash-landed in rebel territory in 2003.
Thus, a spy plane could not be completely invisible if it were to be used for espionage or, indeed, flown at all, since its pilots would need to know its position relative to the ground.
The Sentinel spy plane is a modified business jet which uses radar to create accurate real-time images of what is happening on the ground, and was used in Libya during the uprising against Colonel Gaddafi.
The Air Force will posthumously award the Silver Star on Friday to Francis Gary Powers, whose capture in 1960 after his spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union became a Cold War flash point.
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Northrop Grumman ( NOC - news - people ) makes an unmanned spy plane called Global Hawk, which can map and image huge areas quickly, but it is expensive, and expensive to fly, and can stay aloft for only a day or so.
All this as China was still smarting from the spy-plane incident in April, as well as President Bush's decision to allow the biggest sale of arms to Taiwan in nearly a decade and press ahead with a missile-defence system that the Chinese say could destroy international arms-control efforts.
From west to east in Vancouver proper, hit Eric Hamber Secondary School, the school featured in both Juno and 21 Jump Street, stop by Burnaby City Hall, shown in Snakes on a Plane, and visit Simon Fraser University, which made an appearance in the Robert Redford political thriller Spy Game.
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