CHINESE AIRLINER FORCED DOWN BY UNKNOWN OBJECT --OFFICIALS REFUSE TO COMMENT Thursday, December 26, 1996 Source: Reuters BEIJING, The Reuters World Service via Individual Inc.: A Chinese passenger plane was forced to make an emergency landing after the glass of the cockpit window was cracked by an unidentified flying object at 9,600-metres (31,500 feet) , the Yangcheng Evening News said. The object collided with the Boeing 757-200 passenger plane on December 19 on a flight from Beijing to Wuhan, capital of central Hubei province, an edition of the newspaper seen in Beijing on Wednesday said. The plane belonging to a Hubei subsidiary of China's Southern Airlines made a successful emergency landing at Beijing's Capital International Airport, it said but did not elaborate. Company officials reached by telephone declined to give further details. Thanks to UFO Updates