C J Campbell wrote:

Any action taken at that
moment would almost certainly have been the wrong one. As a pilot, one of
the first things you learn about emergencies is to wait and see what the
emergency is before deciding what, if any, action should be taken.

NPR recently interviewed a U.S. Army General (retired). IIRC, it was "Stormin'
Norman". When asked about this incident, he said basically the same thing. He stated
that, when he was younger, he had been prone to make rapid decisions, and they were
almost always inferior to those he would have made had he thought about them for a
while.

George Patterson
If you want to know God's opinion of money, just look at the people
he gives it to.