No Hooves gaunty,
But, the chute landing is not a soft fluffy drop into a bundle of pillows. It has risks too.
If you look at the choices of landing area in the photo, and assuming they were high enough to be in the cruise noticing an oil pressure problem, I would have thought that a landing in a dead flat field would have carried less risk.
Just a guess is all. One is uncontrolled, one is controlled.