Russian jet arrives to salvage US spy plane

A huge Russian cargo plane on a mission to carry home a dismantled US Navy spy plane arrived today on the Chinese island of Hainan.

A huge Russian cargo plane on a mission to carry home a dismantled US Navy spy plane arrived today on the Chinese island of Hainan.

The Antonov 124 landed at the Lingshui air base, where the EP-3E Aries II has been parked since making an emergency landing on April 1 after a mid-air collision with a Chinese fighter jet.

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