The capture included two Chinese J-10 military aircraft and a U.S. Flying corps RC-135 surveillance plane, it said in an announcement.
"One of the capturing Chinese planes had a hazardous over the top rate of conclusion on the RC-135 flying machine. Starting appraisal is this is by all accounts an instance of uncalled for airmanship, as no other provocative or hazardous moves happened," Pacific Command said. Its announcement did not say how shut the Chinese warrior went to the U.S. plane.
"The Department of Defense is tending to the issue with China in suitable conciliatory and military channels," the announcement said.
China's Defense Ministry said it had noticed the report and was investigating it.
"In light of the report, the U.S. side is again intentionally building up the issue of the nearby reconnaissance of China by U.S. military air ship," it said in an announcement sent to Reuters.
"Chinese military pilots reliably do operations as per the law and the guidelines, and are proficient and mindful," it included, without expounding.
In May, the Pentagon said two Chinese warrior planes flew inside 50 feet (15 meters) of a U.S. EP-3 flying machine over the South China Sea.
The Pentagon verified that the May episode disregarded an assention the two governments marked a year ago.
Prior this week, Secretary of State John Kerry said the United States would consider any Chinese foundation of an air guard zone over the South China Sea to be a "provocative and destabilizing act."
U.S. authorities have communicated worry that a universal court administering expected in coming weeks on a body of evidence brought by the Philippines against China over its South China Sea cases could incite Beijing to announce an air protection distinguishing proof zone, or ADIZ, as it did over the East China Sea in 2013.
China has guaranteed the greater part of the South China Sea, through which $5 trillion in shipborne exchange passes each year. The Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan and Brunei have covering claims.
Washington has blamed Beijing for mobilizing the South China Sea in the wake of making counterfeit islands. Beijing, thus, has scrutinized expanded U.S. maritime watches and activities in Asia.
Amid a meeting in Singapore a week ago, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said the U.S. way to deal with the Asia-Pacific stayed "one of duty, quality and incorporation," however he cautioned China against provocative conduct in the South China Sea.
(Reporting by Idrees Ali; Additional reporting by Ben Blanchard in Beijing; Editing by David Gregorio, Peter Cooney and Michael Perry)
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