That caused tensions to flare, and the United States sent carriers near Taiwan in a show of support.
Ever since the Sept. 11 attacks sent carriers into their worst financial plunge in history, executives have worried that the downing of another jet by terrorists would reverse the industry's slow but steady recovery.
It is 161 years since Paul Julius Reuter, a German-born entrepreneur whose first venture in the news business was sending carrier pigeons across Europe, installed himself in the London Stock Exchange, called himself the Reuter's Telegram Company and started selling the latest market-moving information from around the world to the City's share traders.
Still, despite the threat of sophisticated weapons designed with just this occasion in mind, President Trump could send carriers to escort incoming ships to their Taiwanese destinations.
Because of a damaging air attack by Allied land- and carrier-based aircraft on Japanese naval forces invading the Lae-Salamaua area in New Guinea in March, Inoue requested the Combined Fleet to send carriers to provide air cover for the MO forces.
In 1996, Mr. Clinton sent two carrier groups to the end of the strait in response to China's firing several missiles into waters near Taiwan before elections that year.
In an industry that has been hit hard by high oil prices and an economic slowdown, the revised forecast sent the carrier's shares as much as 22percentt higher in a day of volatile trading, before they fell back.
America sent a carrier group to join South Korea's navy for a series of war games in the Yellow Sea though they refrained from using live artillery after Chinese grumbles.
The Soviets cautioned restraint but clearly favoured India, while U.S. President Nixon sent a carrier task force into the Bay of Bengal and openly favoured Pakistan, influenced by the country's role as intermediary between Washington and Peking.
In the letter Senator Franken sent to Carrier IQ, he asked the company to clarify what types of data its software captured and what was done with that information.
