Why did it take a week to publicly mention those pings?
Needed time to find some way to cover up what happened?
My comment: Golly gee. We searched everywhere around China and it wasn't there. We will never know what happened. So move on.
(The www.wnd.com is NOT saying that Red China shot it down but given their "rules" for aircraft in the area.. they could have shot it down. The killings of 60 million-plus Chinese citizens by the Communist Party of China were contemporaneous events for me.. so I imagine the PRC shrugs. "What's another three hundred or so?". But they and their cheap-labor-lovin', free-tradin' useful idiots still want it covered up.)
The new Chinese zone is north of Taiwan.