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It seems pretty obvious that there were two tankers in the same airspace and they collided.

Considering we have several bases in the area, I don't really understand why there would be a need for one tanker to fuel another one. Why wouldn't the empty tanker just land and take on a new load of fuel?

That's just my ignorance / curiosity. There are probably tactical reasons why this was the way to go. SO let me assume it was indeed a case of one tanker fueling the other. We know that the surviving plane had damage on the vertical stabilizer. It clearly contacted the doomed plane at the top of the stabilizer.

Would this imply that the surviving plane was in the lower position, iow, the plane receiving the fuel (or getting into position to receive the fuel)? I am trying to visualize how this could have happened, and what part of the doomed plan was struck in such a way as to cause it to go out of control. I ask because it did not appear that the stabilizer on the surviving plan was damaged that heavily.

Also, is it safe to say these large planes do no have ejection systems?