US plane over Ayungin Shoal proves all-out support to PH, says the front page banner of our April 5 issue.

Under the headline is a wire service photo of an encounter between a Philippine civilian boat dwarfed, like a Lilliputian vessel, and a gigantic Chinese coast guard ship. There were actually two large Chinese ships, but the other one got cropped out of the published photo. In this picture of the dramatic encounter of a maritime David and two Goliaths, Agence France-Presse insetted the photo of an American plane that was apparently taken from a surface ship while it was circling over the Ayungin Shoal on March 29. The US plane seems to be a P8 Poseidon, the type of plane the US Navy uses for reconnaissance and anti-submarine operations.

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