Originally Posted by
Pilot DAR
Huh?
Yes, people get killed in planes, but lots survive crashes....
My point was that if you elect to abandon the airframe, you have already made a judgement that the implications of staying with it are worse than the implications of making your own way down. Personally, if most of the control surfaces are behaving as advertised, the number of lifting surfaces you have available is roughly equivalent to the number you had on the walk-round, nothing worth mentioning is on fire, and you can see something vaguely flat onto which to make a forced landing, then staying with the airframe is a much better proposition.