Australia rebuked Beijing on Thursday for "unsafe" military conduct, accusing a Chinese fighter jet of dropping flares near an Australian air force plane patrolling the South China Sea.

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The plane was not damaged and no crew member ... unprofessional behavior over the Yellow Sea in May last year by dropping flares in the path of an Australian navy Seahawk helicopter.

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the dropping of flares was unseen until around 2022. While using flares to signal an unresponsive aircraft at a safe distance is lawful and a signal of escalatory actions, how the Chinese pilots ...

NORAD said F-16 jets safely escorted each aircraft out of the restricted airspace, and used flares during two of those instances to either "draw attention from or communicate with the pilot." ...

which prompted NORAD’s F-16 fighter aircraft to intercept the plane and escort it out of the area. Flares were also deployed to “draw attention from or communicate with the pilot” according ...