“At that point it looked like the power was down enough that it was no longer moving. Either he wasn’t taking the chance that it would, or he panicked. Looked like a hard landing.”
I suspect that she just wanted to get away from the plane, not knowing if it would blow due to a fuel leak.
Hard to tell from the oblique camera angle, but it looks like he landed in front of the jet and not too far away either. If that thing had still been pushing forward, he’d have had a lot of problems.
Good guess. I would have punched out.