>Clinton knew in December of 2000 that the Chinese were doing that?<
Well, they WERE, after all, financing his campaign...
Help me, here. I remember something about a Chinese pilot named (and I am not kidding) Wong Wei buzzing American pilots. Freepers were having a field day with the guy's name, needless to say.
But the routine reconnaissance mission began to go wrong as two Chinese F-8 fighter jets approached the slow-moving aircraft, one getting threateningly close.
The Chinese pilot Wang Wei twice "buzzed" them, abruptly flying frighteningly close at a steep angle, said Osborn.
"It was a hostile intercept. It was the closest we had obviously ever seen," he said. "I could even see him face-to-face out the window as he came up."
Since the U.S. Navy plane was only flying at 180 nautical knots, Wang, in a jet built for high speeds was struggling to maintain balance at that slow speed, said Osborn.
The next thing Osborn knew, was the Chinese pilot had done a "run in" on the U.S. plane. Heading directly for the EP-3 Aries II, the F-8 hit the propeller of the U.S. plane's No. 1 engine, on its far left, from underneath.
He said the Chinese jet was cut in two, ricocheting off the nose cone of the U.S. plane, which then flew off, rolling the turboprop into a steep dive.
Sitting in the cockpit with the wind and debris whipping in from the punctures in his badly mangled aircraft, there was one thought that flashed through Osborn's mind. "The first thing I thought was, 'This guy [the Chinese pilot] just killed us,'" he said.
http://www.military.com/Content/MoreContent?file=FL_pilotep3_041701
Here's the video:
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3addc5bf124e.htm
And here are those threads:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?s=Wang+Wei&ok=Search&q=deep&m=all&o=time&SX=45149efbaa6f82c43fbf228c5053ef60e5cd4485