Thursday, September 04, 2014

PLA reveals how captain 'stopped submarine from falling into 3,000-metre trench'

Kilo class SSKChina’s military has given top awards to the captain and crew of a submarine that stopped their ailing vessel from plummeting into an ocean trench 3,000 metres deep and averting a fatal crash.

However, the incident, which appeared in a front-page PLA Daily report about the awards, also constituted a rare admission by the People’s Liberation Army of a malfunction in military hardware.

The Central Military Commission cited Wang Hongli, captain of the submarine number 372, for calmly reversing the disaster during a routine patrol in deep waters. It happened at an undisclosed location earlier this year.

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