Originally Posted by
hans brinker
You will have a chance of survival crashing the aircraft close to the runway busting minimums. You will definitely die if the wing comes of on the way to the alternate. The only delay I would consider is changing to an approach with lower minimums that wasn't available before (because tailwinds or something like that) if it wouldn't take more than a few minutes.
True, however we don't know whether or not the wing is going to fall off. We simply cannot know enough about the individual case.
I'd have a big problem with crashing on the side of the runway causing a lot of death, if there's a decent chance that the wing won't suffer a structural collapse.