Whopity, I am not sure that I can concur with your last sentence.
As an ex 50% owner, on the couple of occasions I actively considered landing in a field, ownership didn't enter my head. I simply wanted to execute the right call at that moment.
Separately, 'press-on-itis' can be a cruel mistress. But if only out of self-preservation, I am not sure that the several posters who have laboured the subject of whether or not one has recently carried out a powered pfl as being a factor in this particular incident are on the mark.
It would appear that this guy had, indeed, elected to get down anywhere he could, otherwise I doubt that he would have been as low as he was.
Whether or not he should have been aloft in the first place has already been copiously covered.