A collision occurred between a U.S. spy plane and a Chinese fighter jet over international waters and we are to blame? There is something wrong here. First of all, the United States is allowed to fly over international waters.

The story is that two Chinese fighter jets intercepted this four-engine turboprop U.S. aircraft.

The physics just don’t add up to me. If the U.S. turboprop can only go 375 mph, and the Chinese fighter jets can fly much faster, how is it that the spy plane could actually run into them? To me, it sounds like the Chinese tried to bully the spy plane into changing its course.

The Chinese fighter jets could fly circles around that spy plane yet they make it sound like the spy plane, ran the fighter jets down and “rammed” one of them.

The Chinese expect an apology only because the pilot died. We should not be to blame if the Chinese tried to bully one of our planes and got too close.

Luke Bodeen

Junior

Computer engineering