US President Joe Biden said Washington was going to “take care” of the aircraft who entered American airspace. In the process, air traffic has been suspended in three airports.
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Buffer in combat… After a few tens of hours of procrastination, US President Joe Biden decided, on Saturday, February 4, to take care of the “Chinese spy ball”. While he had just landed on Air Force One in Syracuse, in New York State, where he has to spend a few hours, Mr. Biden said: “We are going to take care of it”, without more accuracy. After these few words he immediately got into a car.
In the process, air traffic has been suspended in three American airports, announced the American civil aviation regulator ( FAA ): “The FAA has suspended departures and arrivals at Wilmington Airport in North Carolina, Myrtle Beach International Airport And Charleston International Airport, South Carolina, as part of a national security measure taken by the “American Defense Department, she announced in a press release.
Hunting planes takeoff
The American army would plan to shoot it once it is above the Atlantic Ocean, where its remains could potentially be recovered, four American officials told Associated Press (AP) under cover of anonymity. On social networks, Internet users publish photos of the condensing trails left by F-22 hunters from the Air Force and the course of the air supply planes. For its part, the American navy dispatched a specialized ship off the North Carolina, to try to recover debris from the machine.
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According to American media, the Chinese ball, whose pentagon ensures that it is a “spy” ball, flying over Northern Carolina on the east coast of the United States. Beijing acknowledged that it was a device from China, but assured that it was a “civil aircraft, used for research purposes, mainly meteorological”. The machine would have “diverted from its trajectory,” added a spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, by expressing the “regrets” of his country for this “involuntary” violation of American airspace.
The ball has notably stolen above the state of Montana, which houses nuclear missile silos, before moving east. It has so far been decided not to cut it down, due to the risks posed by possible debris for people on the ground, explained a senior Pentagon official.
ball above Latin America
A second ball was seen above Latin America on Friday, the Pentagon announced. The American authorities did not specify the exact location of this new object. “We now believe that this is another Chinese surveillance ball,” said officer Patrick Ryder, Pentagon press secretary in the columns of Washington Post , declining In addition, to communicate more information on the subject.