The boat was spotted later that day by a surveillance plane as it continued toward Australian waters.
I'd seen no further sign of the surveillance plane, but that gave me limited comfort.
Out here a thousand miles north of nowhere, we run smack into a surveillance plane .
Some of the missions have been defensive, officers say, including protecting surveillance planes and other assets in the sky.
Both alliances already agree that such surveillance planes should not carry equipment able to monitor communications.
So how did Borken know there were surveillance planes in the sky?
For instance, right now our surveillance planes are tracking your radio signal.
Most air forces around the world lack dedicated surveillance planes.
Dropping an earlier request to buy surveillance planes, Pakistan said for the first time that it would be willing to lease them.
Lawrence won't apologize for the surveillance plane, so we can't either.