Mr. Crichton, you know that the problem is not due to the fact that he collided with some birds, but to the fact that there was a training aircraft on the strip that he could have collided with when he came back. It is irrelevant that he collided with a bird, or that he had a problem in flight, or that this was a test and that he was asked to come back.
He could have collided with an airplane because you were not able to detect it. That is the problem. You told this committee that a control tower is used to avoid collisions between airplanes. It could have happened. Please be honest at least on this point. It did not happen, that's great, but the next time, it could happen.