But the public are happy/relieved anyway.
From the letters column of the Evening Telegraph:
WHAT AN amazingly lucky escape for the pilot of the light aircraft, which crashlanded at Caird Park golf course in Dundee.
It is truly miraculous no one was hurt. He landed so close to one of Dundee’s main arterial routes. If he had hit the road it could have been a disaster.
Equally, Caird Park golf course is a very popular municipal facility, which is usually a hive of activity.
If he had landed a few metres in the other direction, there could have been serious consequences.
The pilot says his landing was part down to good instruction and partly to reading Biggles.
Whatever the reason, he did very well to minimise the impact of what could have been a very serious incident. — Relieved.