I do not understand how a plethora of honorable posters before me concede they too could have put her into the drink under similar circumstances
You need to ponder the wisdom contained in a post by
FH1100.
my ego makes me want to sit here and think to myself and promise you that *I* surely would have done a better job in that situation. But I cannot guarantee that. Perhaps I would have done the same thing, basically sitting frozen on the controls for those eight brief seconds. I like to believe I'm Chuck Yeager/Aaron/Norris all rolled into one awesome human bean. Most of the time though I'm just Chuckles the Clown. I cut that guy a lot of slack
Never have I seen it so eloquently put.