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Secretary Rumsfeld comments on a videotape shown to reporters during a press briefing in the Pentagon on the EP-3 collision.
010413-D-9880W-036 Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld comments on a videotape shown to reporters during a press briefing in the Pentagon on April 13, 2001. Rumsfeld is using the video as an example of previous close encounters between U.S. aircraft and Chinese fighters. The secretary is briefing reporters on the facts associated with the recent collision of the EP-3 Aries II reconnaissance aircraft and the Chinese F-8 fighter aircraft.