Maule Driver wrote:

How does everyone seem to know that the pilot risked his life staying with
the plane until clear of hazard areas?

Well, the pilot seemed to survive in this case, so you can just ask (and adjust the
answer by the appropriate BS factor).

In the general sense, though, there *do* seem to be a lot of cases in which witnesses
talk about how this "great pilot" avoided the subdivision/school/high-rise/whatever
when a look at the detailed NTSB report shows this was just the luck of the draw.

George Patterson
If a man gets into a fight 3,000 miles away from home, he *had* to have
been looking for it.