Why not indeed, but the riding orders issued to the crew clearly gave them no discretion in the matter of descent
This is getting somewhat tiresome. All the crews had no discretion in the matter, that's the point I've been making, yet no body, or at best an extreme few, complied. Can we give it a rest?
It's really not that hard a question. If you were a passenger on that flight, would you have preferred to have come home without seeing McMurdo, or have preferred being alive?
You've twisted the question
Hempy. That's not what
prospector asked, and the answer to yours is self evident.