Nice piece of armchair quarterbacking there, 43 inches. I'm sure there have been plenty of successful turnbacks that would have resulted in a worse outcome had the pilot just gone straight ahead.
Originally Posted by netstruggler
Not a joke
This should have been an inquisitorial investigation, not Adversarial. I still maintain that, in these highly technical cases which are totally unfamiliar to the jury, they (the jurors) haven't got a hope of, effectively, being taught to fly in the number of days of the trial, let alone being bombarded with the counter arguments being pushed by both sides. For the vast majority of court cases, theft, fraud, aggression (rape, murder) drunken car accident, speeding at 200kph in a 60 zone, the jurors are well aware and understand the scenario. They don't have to learn about it. They only have to shift through the evidence to decide and most probably can spot BS artists a mile away.
In this situation, they have none of that. Most people wouldn't have a clue about aviation, much less the finer points of doing a turn when confronted with a water landing.
I hope none of you end up in court facing Harvey Spectre after an aviation accident.