china which was scheduled for this weekend. as lawmakers react to the incident here at home, senate majority leader chuck schumer says the entire senate will receive a classified briefing on china february 15th. charles watson is live on the south carolina coast near where debris from the spy flight rained down. also standing by, congressman ryan zinke, who represents montana where that flight was respondented lingering over a nuclear silo field. first though, lucas tomlin stomp s live at the white house. reporter: moments ago, the u.s. military issued a statement that the u.s. navy has begun recovery operations off the coast of south carolina. they are combing waters about 7 miles wide and 47 feet deep. now, earlier on fox news sunday senator tom cotton says that spy ballooning should have been shot down when it crossed over the aleutian islands which is u.s. air space in alaska. what began as a spy balloon has become a trial balloon testing president biden s strength an
newark liberty international airport in new jersey. one of those planes was full of passengers. a united airlines boeing 757 was parked at a gate waiting for departure when its left wing was clipped by the right wing of a plane that was being towed to the next gate. the tip of one of the wings on one of those two planes snapped off during the incident. fortunately, there were no injuries, and passengers were able to deplane as normal. now, yesterday s incident out of austin is the latest of a string of these near collisions. on january 18th a jetblue plane at new york s jfk airport that was preparing to take off hit the tail of another parked air kraft. it was another aircraft. it was another jetblue plane. it s a apparent somebody on the ground wasn t doing their job properly. my gut feeling is it s probably one of those wing walkers, but unfortunately, the captain has the ultimate respondent for his airplane responsibility for his airplane.
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years, we ve been flying in and around one of the more sophisticated air defense systems anywhere in the world. the u.s. jets in it take off and in jordan. they re flying right into deranged fans of some of these complicated syrian defense systems. if, for example, the syrians decided to start turning these on and start tracking u.s. air craft, that could affect the flight paths, it could affect some of the operations in raqqa, for example. it could make our allies nervous. one of the reasons we set up the deconfliction after the russians beefed up their intervention in 2015 is because we started seeing irresponsible behavior on the part of the russians and syria in terms of trailing u.s. air craft, in terms of getting too close to air kraft. aircraft. we didn t want our planes to run into each other over syrian skies.