So because you were incompetent and overly aggressive, you killed 290 civilians. Tell that to the families of victims.
It was a combat situation. Still...This has nothing to do with Wang Wei's reckless flying.
Keep trying to spin your story, even Captain Rogers' collegues admitted he was aggressive. Shooting down an climbing airliner is no accident and requires deliberate intent. On the other hand, a mid air collision came about as a unintended consequence.
No spinning here. If it was 'deliberate intent' then it was directed against what the ship's crew believed to be a hostile military aircraft, not against an civilian airliner. By your argument, there is no such thing as 'friendly fire' incidents, no?
One deliberately shotdown a target, and one occured as an accident.
And where did I even implied that Wang Wei deliberately rammed the American aircraft?
No, but your notion of reckless and incompetence is not unique to Wang Wei. In fact, your navy's incompetence extended to the whole ship involved.
One man's incompetence/foolishness does not justify another man's same.
The reality is that since then the US did not cease recon flights off China and there have been other intercepts...
Hainan Island incident - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Following the collision, China's monitoring of reconnaissance flights became less aggressive.
Behind closed doors, the PLAAF got a spanking from the head commie for causing an unnecessary international incident that brought shame upon the Chinese nation. So what if China gained a few technical information from dissecting the EP-3? The US does not rests upon those technical laurels and have used better technologies since then.
There is no legitimate comparison between this incident and IranAir 655 because in the latter's case,
EVERY navy in the world, including the PLAN, would have sympathy. The word 'sympathy' does not mean they feel 'sorry' for the US Navy but that every navy in the world have studied that disaster and when they take into consideration their inferior technology and lack of combat experience in such hostile and confined naval environment, they silently admitted that they possibly would have done the same.
The international aviation community have not been as kind and there is no need to be so kind. Flying is still essentially a solo endeavor, even when there are two qualified pilots in the cockpit there is still only a single 'stick actuator' that commands the aircraft to go which way. There can be no collision from beyond visual range. Absurd notion. All collisions are obviously within visual range and when this international fraternity read that the collision occurred in a quite ideal flying day, they will come down hard on the smaller aircraft and have came down hard on Wang Wei.
The head commie decided that for the gullible Chinese public Wang Wei will be made a 'hero/martyr' while the PLAAF will be privately chastised for failure to exercise strict flight discipline.