And as many (most?) other pilots know, any pilot could have been in either plane at several points in their flying careers. Back as a young Lt I personally over-G'd the snot out of an F-15E to avoid a collision that would have been my fault, I had at least 2 other near-midairs that weren't really my "fault" yet would have come down to a failure to clear my flight path (the catch-all cause whenever someone runs into something in flight), and in the training business I've taken the controls from a student pilot at the very last instant before collision became unavoidable, leading to abrupt maneuvers being required to avoid a collision. Any one of those times, if my judgement had been wrong, could have been a midair. So I'm not saying that these pilots are any different from any other pilot. But I sure as heck do want to learn from their mistakes to decrease the chance that next time it's me riding the chute down.
