31.   After a U.S. Navy spy plane collided with a Chinese fighter jet and landed on Chinese soil, American officials waited for China to respond.

32.   Anatolia quoted eyewitnesses as saying the two planes had collided and caught fire, but that all four crew members had parachuted out of the planes.

33.   An investigation was continuing, but a Navy spokesman still could not confirm on Monday whether the planes collided.

34.   Another defense ministry spokesman, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said there was no proof yet that the two planes had collided.

35.   But it ended in failure after a helicopter and a transport plane collided in the Iranian desert during a sandstorm killing eight Americans.

36.   Early reports had said the planes collided in mid-flight.

37.   Following a minute-long silence, the two planes collided.

38.   Had the two planes collided head on, Smith said, a fire and explosion would probably have occurred.

39.   Initial reports said the planes had collided.

40.   Jiang turned to Hu last year to handle the crisis that erupted when a U.S. reconnaissance plane collided with a Chinese jet fighter off the Chinese coast.