I talked to the pilot about a week after the incident. What absolutely amazed me was his humility about the whole thing. A couple of times he expressed genuine sadness over not being able to land safely and causing the aircraft to be damaged as it was. He gave a very detailed and graphic description of what happened and how he tried to cope with it. As I recall, he was trying to make it to a flat spot but just could not get there.
The salient point of his whole story was that of "flying the machine and thinking about what he was doing".
As Nick rightly says....Grade A! Gold star...step to the front of the class!
