Byline: JOHN DIAMOND Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- As the roaring jets of the F-14 Tomcat fighter slammed him back in his pilot's seat, Lt. Cmdr. John Stacy Bates waited to punch through the clouds and into the blue sky over Nashville, Tenn.
A commercial pilot watching the display radioed the tower: ``Delta 1-5-6-6, can we get what that other guy got?'' The controller replied, ``Catch him if you can.''
Seconds later, Bates' plane plunged out of the clouds and crashed into a suburban neighborhood, killing Bates, his crewman and three on the ground. It was the fourth crash of an F-14 this year.
Pilots instinctively understand that military …
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