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Map Shows Chinese Spy Plane's Pacific Flight Route

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The intelligence-gathering aircraft flew the same route for the second time this month.

A Chinese intelligence plane's long-range flight has been tracked in the Western Pacific—the second such sortie this month—on a map released on Wednesday by U.S. treaty ally Japan.An accompanying photograph, taken from an interceptor fighter jet of Japan's Air Self-Defense Forces, showed the distinct airframe of the electronic intelligence-gathering plane known as a Y-9JB or GX-8, which is in service with China's naval air force.

The Defense Ministry in Taipei did not disclose the aircraft type, but said it briefly reached 118 nautical miles off Cape Eluanbi, the island's southernmost point. It was among 14 Chinese warplanes detected in the northern, southwestern and southeastern sectors of Taiwan's air defense zone, according to Taipei's daily report.The Y-9, an upgrade from the Y-8 airframe of Soviet design, is manufactured by China's state-owned Shaanxi Aircraft Corp.

 

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