Ben,

I just wonder if in retrospect he might have deemed it a better idea to
not pull the chute, and to instead fly the plane onto a runway

It's that tendancy to reject a known risk in favor of a future risk
(where the outcome could be much worse, but it *could* be much *better*)
that gets a lot of pilots into trouble.


I couldn't agree more.

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Thomas Borchert (EDDH)