The FO was a pussy....
You think he should have been a bit more like this one? :
To put context to the above, the aircraft had a fuel leak and was running seriously low on fuel. It was crossing the coast inbound to San Francisco airport, and the Captain had two choices - ditch in the bay, while still under power, or fly over land to the airport with the risk of running out of fuel on the way resulting in a (more severe) crash on land.
The engineer was tasked with working out the rate of loss of the fuel, and calculating an endurance to see if the airport was a realistic option (which is why he is asking for "a few more minutes" to complete his calculation).
The Captain is in favour of ditching, the FO in favour of risking pushing through to the airport.
The Captain decides that the engineer's calculations are taking too long, and orders the ditching.
The FO disagrees, and slaps him about - they go to the airport.
CRM at it's best!
