The guy in the blue top & jeans looks the the RVAC president, for who asked who 3rd person is in pic.
And maybe that pilot has been good to save 2 potential disasters, instead of winding up in a ball of fire & destroying 2 aircraft! When your students have control, and a situation evolves, well then u must take over from a known point and control the aircraft in maybe not so perfecct circumstances or flying with a scared student trying to assist you. Not blaming anyone, just point of both times he has been involved, he has made the aircraft still in tact and walked away both times. If it is a true mechanical failure, then he is not to blame, and probably found the only flat plain in gliding distance around those quarries & hilly land with tree stumps everywhere. Look on google earth and one will see what i mean.
Cheers, KP