Originally Posted by
WetCompass
Am I criticizing the pilot? Or ATC for that matter? No. As you quoted me I said "here we are Thursday night", so we can look at scenarios like that and have a think about what we might do.
He did what he did and he got away with it, the wing didn't drop off over a built up area. Do we really have to wait a whole 2 years for the ATSB to perhaps have some thoughts about what we might do differently if we were involved in a midair?
Whilst I can't speak for others here, the chances of me ever being involved in a mid-air, in a fast jet, at low altitude, over Port Phillip, and outside of gliding range of the nearest land is lower than my chances of flying to Mars.. and for that reason I'm happy to hear the pilot in this instance made it safely back to terra firma and applaud his actions in doing so. What I (or, I suspect, you) would do in the circumstance is irrelevant.