I have no idea what has happened ... but the sophistication of our safety devices is such that ... like a sort of, "Run Silent, Run Deep" , might have been an exercise to see how close the two could come without touching.
Some disgruntled enemy reporter decided to use the word "collides" when it was probably a scrape.
Everything I just said is a pure guess,
9 posted on 08/22/2016 7:46:08 AM PDT by knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true ... and it pisses people off.)