The Philippine government has filed a diplomatic protest after Chinese jets flew dangerously close and fired flares in the path of a Philippine air force patrol plane over a disputed shoal in the South China Sea
was the first such aerial encounter since high-seas hostilities between Beijing and Manila in the busy seaway started to flare last year.
“If the flares came into contact with our aircraft, these could have been blown into the propeller or the intake or burned our plane,” Brawner said in response to a question from reporters. “It was very dangerous.” Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said over the weekend that the actions by the Chinese air force jets were “unjustified, illegal and reckless."
Despite the encounter, Philippine monitoring of its airspace would be intensified, the task force said.
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