A Chinese jet fighter came within 20 feet of a U.S. Air Force plane flying over the South China Sea. The Air Force said if its pilot didn’t take evasive actions, the planes would have collided.

In a video released by the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, a Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy J-11 can be seen flying dangerously close to the front of a U.S. Air Force RC-135. Indo-Pacific Command said the Air Force plane in the video, which was shot on Dec. 21, was lawfully conducting routine operations in international air space. The RC-135 is a reconnaissance aircraft.

Had the planes collided, it no doubt would have sparked an international incident similar to a 2001 air collision that left one Chinese pilot dead.

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