The plane was a write off as other have said so what if everyone walked away. Which to be honest happens alot check the AAIB reports.
Not really because its indecision that kills even if the most piss poor plan implamented correctly will have a better out come than a wait and see what happens. By controlling the situation you dominate it and create least suprises. Its the suprises that kill you, you focus on the job at hand. Trying to go somewhere else you are splitting your attention between are you going to make it, is there a field that we can get into, and in this case should I pull the chute.
Where as if you had just said right engine failure and dropped into your failure drill, alot less options, alot less work and alot more chance of it being successful. Which to be honest most forced landings are even if the airframe is written off which doesn't take much with the plastic aircraft.
I think 75% is a huge under estimation for the survivability rate.
Last edited by mad_jock; 24th Jul 2012 at 15:44.