DelaneyT
Yeager might not have thought about anyone else but himself when the **** hit the fan, but there are plenty of documented cases of military pilots who have a) done exactly the opposite - considered the consequences of their a/c crashing into a populated area - and lived and b) done exactly the opposite and sadly died.
While this tendency for the media to say, 'Oh! He stayed with the jet a little longer to make sure he missed the orphanage' is irritating, selfless acts like these do actually happen on occasion.