A Republic of China Air Force C-130 carrying a group of 20 former senior government officials to Taiping Island in the Spratly archipelago was approached by two U.S. Navy fighters from USS John C. Stennis over the South China Sea on May 5.
By 玄史生 (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 or GFDL], via Wikimedia Commons
United Daily News reported that at one point, the fighters came within visual range of the cargo plane.