It was blamed on a mid-air collision with a Libyan MiG 23 fighter jet.
Even before the mid-air collision over the South China Sea caused more turbulence in Beijing-Washington relations, the arms issue was making its own waves.
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It greatly complicated the mid-air collision between a Chinese fighter and an American spy plane in 2001, which the PLA had (wrongly) blamed on the Americans.
For Mr Bush, the mid-air collision of a Chinese fighter with an American spy plane in April 2001 became the first foreign-policy crisis of his presidency.
It means that when you're ripping around the Italian countryside like a fleeing bank robber, with the Huayra's turbo wastegates exploding, tearing the veil with the sound of angels having a mid-air collision, there is somehow a deft, invisible finger holding the car to the pavement.
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They are still in your automobile, doing the collision sensing for air bag deployment and several other things.
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This machine is a collision sensor, which knew in a split second to activate your automobile air bag and cushion the impact of your collision with the inside of the car.
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He might attack air traffic control systems and cause the collision of two civilian aircraft.
Meteorologists were blaming the nor'easter on the collision of two storm systems: cold air traveling south from Canada bumping into a moist low pressure system heading north from the Carolinas.
But the first officer, still believing that the object in the sky above him was the cargo plane, initiated a dive to avoid the perceived imminent collision -- sending the jetliner toward the Air Force plane.
The air also holds a whiff of fuel oil after a barge collision that dumped more than 400, 000 gallons of oil into the Mississippi River.
Airprox said aircraft safety had been compromised in 26 of the cases and there had been a risk of collision in nine other cases in addition to the three commercial air transport ones.
The collision impaled Pan on the brake handle, and it hurled Henry Cao into the air.
Officials said the plane suffered more damage than originally thought in the collision, including the propeller damage, and the loss of wing flaps and the air speed indicator.
"As in 1998, more than three-quarters of the civil air transport incidents reported in the first half of 1999 were assessed as involving no risk of collision, " said Gordon McRobbie, director of the UK Airprox Board.
At the time, top Air Force officials said the U.S. had the capability of closely tracking and issuing pre-collision warnings for only a couple of hundred pieces of orbiting debris.
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