The People's Liberation Army of China (PLA) reportedly sent in 27 fighter jets Wednesday to the region that Taiwan has designated as an Air Defense Iden
surprised to hear about it. then the jgeneral response is, ugh, again. china has been doing this for quite some time. taiwan s ministry of national defense started announcing this basically last year and this is now two consecutive days with the two highest numbers of planes in taiwan s self-declared identification zone, since they started announcing it publicly. 39 planes on saturday, 39 on friday. that s 77 told war planes. and if you look at the list of the hardware that was in the skies. and we don t know the totals for sunday yet. you had more than six dozen chinese war planes, 368 fighters, four nuclear capable bombers, and two early warning aircraft. when this happens, when these planes fly close to taiwan, the taiwanese air force scrambles their planes. they deploy air defense missile systems and they issue this radio warning. listen.
rebels taking the black box. apparently they have it. they re not admitting it. we re looking at that video right there. what is the significance of that? i think eventually, no matter who has him, rebels or whatever, someone with authority and expertise will have their hands on black boxes. they can t just lose them. the key thing is that they don t tell you a whole lot. there are a couple of interesting things they probably will be able to tell you. they ll tell you something catastrophic happened to this plane very suddenly. it will confirm something catastrophic, it won t say missile. it will say precisely where the plane was when the event occurred. the voice recorder which will be in the cockpit and records what the pilot and copilot are saying to each other, that will first of all tell you that they got no radio warning or anything, nobody contacted them ahead of time to say are you an alien aircraft, what are you doing in our air space or whatever? it will tell you whether or