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first-hand account Hainan Island incident

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The Hainan Island Incident: 25 Years Later we Interview one of the Pilots

We get a first-hand account from the third pilot onboard the EP-3…

Darrick Leiker

May 12, 2026

The Aviationist is run by David Cenciotti ([email protected]), a journalist based in Rome, Italy, who launched the blog in 2006: since then, The Aviationist has become one of world’s most authoritative and read military aviation websites.

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