Chinese fighter pilots have been making unsafe intercepts on a Royal Canadian Air Force CP-140 maritime patrol aircraft since Christmas last year, Global News reports.
Photo: Canadian Armed Forces
The aircraft and its crew are based in Kadena, Japan under Operation NEON, Canada’s contribution to support the implementation of United Nations Security Council sanctions imposed against North Korea.
Anonymous sources told the reporters that there has been approximately 60 intercepts and over two dozens of them were considered as dangerous.
A Department of National Defence confirmed the incidents, saying that there were cases whereby the crew “felt sufficiently at risk that they had to quickly modify their own flight path in order to increase separation and avoid a potential collision with the intercepting aircraft.”
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