True, but they are human like all of us Telstar and sometimes they make mistakes. I too wish it had not been so - I ran into the tail of a Zeke that I blew off and ended up going poof with the kill being awarded to the Zeke pilot (Oldman). Who knows?
I do know that the current collision model is 1000X better than it was in AH1 where just by farting within 100 feet of the other plane a midair happened. Expect a patch out shortly.