BS. You’ll find that even in your mythical days of glory in an emergency that has the plane dropping out of the sky most pilots were doing everything they could to try to save their airplane and their own skins. In most cases reports of a pilot intentionally avoiding populated areas are unsubstantiated and probably mythical. The last words out of most of their mouths was probably “Oh Snap”, not “I must look for a way to save the innocent below.”
Whatever you say.