Originally Posted by
rideforever
Hi profile flight.
If you declare an emergency with such valued customers you might lose your job.
And if you don't, maybe you and your pax lose your life. Not that hard of a choice, is it? (Hmm, I say that full well admitting that there is a certain idea among certain pilots that "it is better to die than to look bad" but I never considered that a PoV among transport/passenger carrying pilots).
Afterthought, having now read the BBC article:
Moments before the flight took off, Mauro Stumpf from the team's coaching staff said he hoped the airline brought them "good luck" - as when the team flew with the same company for the quarter-finals.
That one hurts right in the heart strings.
He may not have realized that someone in that company was relying on good luck for this flight to get them there ...