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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
Washington, December 10 (Xinhua) — Two American F-18 fighter jets entered Venezuelan airspace on Tuesday and circled for about 40 minutes, the Miami Herald, a Florida-based newspaper, reported.
According to Flightradar24 data, two fighter jets flew over the northern end of Lake Maracaibo, over the waters of the Gulf of Venezuela, between the city of La Guajira in Zulia state and Coro, the capital of Falcón state. Zulia and Falcón are key regions for Venezuela's energy sector.
Thousands of Venezuelans tracked the planes' flight paths online using specialized websites, the report said. It also noted that the planes were flying at an altitude of approximately 25,000 feet (about 7,620 meters).
Lake Maracaibo, which covers 5,000 square miles (about 12,950 square kilometers), is one of the largest bodies of water in the Americas and the heart of deposits containing approximately 150 billion barrels of crude oil, the report notes.
The fighter jets were flying less than 100 miles (about 161 kilometers) northeast of Maracaibo, Venezuela's second-largest city and home to Rafael Urdaneta Air Base, one of the main air force bases in the west of the country. –0–
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