Yes.
There is no doubt that the collision was caused by the aggressive actions of the Chinese pilot - who ejected by died.
The military gave the pilot in command the Distinguished Flying Cross - and the rest of the crew received medals, lauds, citations, and parades.
That was a travesty. The pilot should have ordered the crew to bail out, and he should have ditched the aircraft. A post-incident report said that the pilot initially ordered everyone to bail out. Then, he got the aircraft under control and decided to land a Chinese Communist Military Air Base and give them the aircraft. The crew is said to have "destroyed" sensitive equipment (this was almost impossible given the time frame involved). They were only minutely successful and our intelligence capabilities were give to the Chinese Communists on a silver platter.
One of the reports I read stated that the pilot decided not to ditch because the condition of the aircraft made ditching "impossible" and lives would have been lost.
I used to fly military transports. If you can land an aircraft (as he did on the runway), then believe me, you can ditch one at sea.
Could he or the co-pilot have been injured or killed. Yes - but his life was expendable on that type of intelligence mission, and he KNEW it. In fact, they are trained that way.
Moreover, he ample time (and the aircraft was under relative control at that time) to order the crew to bail out, toss out classified materials and equipment, and then ditch the aircraft. But, he chose to make a straight in approach and land the aircraft. And land he did - it didn't crash. Great - but he could have sent the EP-3 to the bottom of the sea instead, and our crew could have been rescued at sea.