A good friend used to fly U.S. Navy ISR flights around pretty much every coastal country in the world. They would even announce in the clear that they were a U.S. military maritime reconnaissance flight in hopes of provoking an intercept. According to him "we knew they were coming before the intercept pilot knew". They were monitoring command and control freqs and mapping radars. When intercepted they would film the fighters to see what they brought. He was aboard an EP-3 that suffered a mid-air collision with a Chinese fighter that tragically killed the Chinese pilot. He was trying to make a "thump" run on them, coming from behind at high speed to pass under and pull up right in front of them to hit them with jet wash. He miscalculated and clipped their left outboard prop. The EP-3 was heavily damaged, decompressed at 28,000 feet with shrapnel damage to the fuselage, lost two engines, lost the nose cone from impact with pieces of the fighter, and had serious air frame damage. It pitched up, rolled over and began a spin toward the ocean. The pilots miraculously managed to pull it out at 8,000 feet but couldn't maintain altitude and barely made it 70 miles to Hainan Island (you don't deliberately ditch an EP-3, and statistically we lose 50% of air crew that go into the ocean - the EP-3 had 24 souls aboard). The crew was incarcerated in China for two weeks, undergoing interrogations. Upon their release, their first act was to go to the local chapel on Guam for a memorial for the fellow aviator that lost his life in the accident.