CF: Gotcha! Or, damned if you do and damned if you don't

As a, er, thought experiment I've reversed the order of some paragraphs is this Toronto Star story, front page, top of the fold--typical yellow Canadian journalism:

Military chiefs in near-disaster

Heads of navy, army and air force on plane that barely avoided mid-air collision over B.C.

TORONTO STAR FILE PHOTOS

From left: Lt.-Gen. Angus Watt, head of the air force, Lt.-Gen. Andrew Leslie, head of the army, and Vice Admiral Drew Robertson, then head of the navy but now retired, were onboard the Challenger jet that avoided a mid-air collision in April 2009.

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Alain Pellerin, a retired colonel, said concern about spending taxpayers' money and worry about the public optics of using two or three corporate jets to shuttle about military brass were likely a factor in the decision to have the leaders fly together.

"That is always a concern in the back of their mind," said Pellerin, executive director of the Conference of Defence Associations, a pro-military lobby group based in Ottawa [How come St. Steve Staples' Rideau Institute is never identified as an "anti-military lobby group" when the Stapler is quoted in our media, as he often is? More here.]...

Canada came close to losing its senior military leaders in the near-collision of a government Challenger jet and a commercial jetliner over British Columbia, the Star has learned.

The April incident is now prompting questions why the military allowed its top brass – including the heads of the navy, army and air force – to travel together in the first place, a practice that most large corporations forbid.

But the Star has learned the Canadian Forces have no policy on whether commanders should travel apart, a failing that exposes the military to serious risk in the event of an accident, one expert said...

Anybody other than the gotcha Star reporters "prompting questions"?