Originally Posted by
DaveReidUK
More accurately, they shouldn't have been flying directly at one another, but they were.
The collision involved the Opposition Barrel Roll by the Synchro Pair, where one of the two aircraft was slightly late in initiating the manoeuvre and therefore their trajectories converged.
And I believe that the recommendation was that in future the manoeuvre should be carried out in such a way that the trajectories don't cross.
The implication in the earlier post was that the reds fly straight at one another and then swerve out of the way at the last moment in some sort game of fast jet chicken, which is not the case.