Vietnam admits losing fighter
NZPA-AFP Hanoi Vietnam admitted yesterday it lost a jet fighter on a routine training flight over North Vietnam, after China said it had shot down a Vietnamese fighter which intruded into its airspace. An official Vietnamese soured said an Air Force jet was lost over .North Vietnam due to weather conditions and a search operation had begun for the plane and its pilot. The official New China News Agency said yesterday the Chinese Air Force had shot down a Vietnamese MiG2l after it intruded twice into Chinese airspace over the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region bordering Vietnam. "On October 5 at noon, during a regular training flight in North Vietnam airspace, a Vietnamese Air Force jet was lost because of weather conditions,” the Vietnamese source told Agence France-Presse. N.C.N.A. did not specify whether the plane was attacked by ground forces or a Chinese plane, nor did it mention the fate of the pilot.
It called the Intrusion "a serious provocation to China” and warned Vietnam to put an end to such incidents or face “all the consequences.”
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