con-pilot,
Your reply is a good summary of what happened but you lose all credibility by implying that poor airmanship and inept training caused the collision. To extend your reasoning is to ask why do the Blue Angels and even the Snowbirds have collisions ? If you have ever been up close then you will know just how easily it can happen. The entire affair that has cost your country much face was caused by the fact that the EP-3 was an intruder and should not have been there. All the justification in the world will not alter this fact.
KIFIS