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In the meantime, Rosetta continued to accompany 67P as it flew closer to the sun.

Francis needed to reduce power sooner on her downwind leg and slow the aircraft before beginning her descent, so she would have only the smallest corrections to make as she flew closer to Earth.

It was at this point that they flew close to the new destroyer, they said.

Just this week Japan lodged a formal protest after a Chinese helicopter flew close to one of its ships.

Pilots would have feared return fire if they flew close to check who was in the vehicles, the guide said.

After one of the aircraft crashed, they said, another flew close to the hideout just before a huge blast rattled the neighborhood.

On Thursday, Japan said it scrambled jets after two Chinese military aircraft flew close to the disputed chain.

It said a Chinese helicopter flew close to and appeared to be filming a Japanese warship in the east China Sea.

Two Russian planes flew close to a US guided missile destroyer almost a dozen times, American officials have said.

Fighter jets were scrambled from an RAF station in Scotland after Russian military aircraft flew close to UK airspace.

In September, an unmanned drone flew close to a group of disputed islands in the East China Sea, raising tensions with Japan.