"Mike Yared" wrote:

China blamed in '01 air collision
A Navy report says a Chinese F-8 jet pilot was to blame for the midair
collision over the South China Sea that nearly killed the crew of a U.S.
reconnaissance aircraft two years ago.
at http://www.washtimes.com/national/20...0434-9850r.htm

Juliet Foxtrot Charlie, Mike!. You think *that* was news? The crew,
Navy, and US Government has *always* maintained that the F-8 pilot
crashed into the EP-3.

The key part of that report, whether missed by you or the Washington
Times deponent won't even try to guess, was that the crew didn't
manage to destroy all of the classified material and/or equipment
aboard the plane, so some compromise of classified material and/or
equipment to the PRC certainly occurred.

OJ III
[Of course the report didn't identify anything that might have been
compromised; and, as reported in the press, did not blame the crew for
their failure to destroy everything classified, apparently recognizing
that they might have been a tad overtasked by the situation they found
themselves in.]