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The pilot came into Lingshui air base on Hainan extremely fast, without slowing the plane by extending its wing flaps, a Pentagon official said. Because there was an unknown amount of damage to the underside of the aircraft, he was concerned that his controls might be damaged, and that the flaps on one side might work but the other side would be frozen, the official said. "It was an incredible landing," the official said.

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After the plane stopped, armed Chinese guards surrounded it and boarded it, escorting the Americans out at gunpoint, a Western source said. A day after the crash, the sources said, the People's Liberation Army dispatched a cargo plane loaded with men and technical equipment from Beijing to the base. The men and equipment were sent to study the aircraft, the sources said, adding that Chinese soldiers later were seen by U.S. intelligence satellites removing equipment from the plane.

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U.S. officials have told allies they "were fairly confident that the most sensitive data was destroyed" during the 26 minutes between the accident and an emergency landing on Hainan, one source said. Nonetheless, that Western source, after a briefing by American officials, described the arrival on Chinese soil of the EP-3 as a "fantastic windfall" for China's military intelligence.