Although an extremely noble gesture, like a captain going down with his ship, it’s usually not the pilot’s fault. And for the crew to ride the aircraft into the ground is a needless and useless exercise.
I’m not saying one human life is worth more than other, but in an accident scenario, should we be advocating the “sacrifice” of highly trained combat pilots?
I think the idea was that maybe you could save someones life by steering it as best you could until it hit the ground and avoid taking others with you. My story was a second ahnd story so im just relaying as it was told to me.
I’m not advocating anything. I was just wondering if anybody knows what the policies or practices that pilots are taught nowadays are. It would probably depend on exactly what the mechanicle failure was too, loss of power equals no control so there would be no point in sticking around, i agree.