Listen, Ron ol' bud... The guy doesn't consider himself such, said that he was trained to do what he did and I learnt up a long time ago that proclamations don't add up to fact...

And as fir backwoods ethics??? What is a "backwoods ethics"??? I never heard of the stuff... Does this mean that if I'm up in the mountain huntin' mushrooms an' I have an impure thought about, ahhhhhh, well, you know, that I'm going straight to Hell???

(No, Bobz... That would be backwwods "unethics"...)

Okay, maybe it's like if I have a good thought for mankind... You know, like I'd like to find a cure fir cancer up there in the woods that I'd get to ride the espress bus to Heaven as opposed to the one that stops at every corner...

(That's prolly it, Boberdz...)

But as fir yer hero, backwoods ethics or not, 99 outta 99 pilots would done the same thing... Okay, maybe a couple woulda initially tried to make it back to the airport only to find that their wasn't enough glide space to pull it off and then done the same thing...

Airplanes is alot like cars in that way... The problem with car accidents is that most occur with less than a second to assess the situation and make a decison... Airplanes is more forgiving... Well, unless yer wing falls off and then, inspite of the thread about the guy landin' the one winged plane (which was bogus) you have some time... Especially if you have control of it, minus the engines...

(But, Boberdz... Didn't you wreck one when you were 16???)

Well, technically, I was in the right seat...

B~