Rubik has a good point on the Concorde crash about landing straight ahead in a farmers field! As we know it was Marty's copilot who desperately had alerted him three (3) times about airspeed decay. With the gear down at only 200 feet, lower than the height of the Control Tower, it would have been a better survival probability instead of trying to make Le Bourget with insufficient airspeed and stalling in the process. A controlled crash is always better than an uncontrolled stall/crash!
In any inflight emergency, our simulator training "mind set" always stresses the concept of landing on a pavement, which in some cases may be impractical reality.
It's lesson One on your first single engine flight: If the engine quits right after takeoff, don't even think about turning back to the airport, land straight ahead. Which is to say that in the case of any multiengine airplane, if you don't have the airspeed then you must land. Now.
