The town of Lake Worth, Tx, was less than 5000 residents in 2019 and is located on a peninsula surrounded on three sides by water, and they had time to eject but still hit a residential section with a free-flier instead of aiming it a the water before ejecting? I see a whole lot of pilot error here just by making bad decisions. The NTSB and the military will have a hard time “splaining this one.
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Check out some other opinions on this but the "time to eject" assumption is not a leisurely decision making process.
When you are on fire and have seconds to react checking out the neighborhood for a safe place to auger in may not be your first priority.