apartment complexes, or they had no choice? i guarantee you they had no time and no choice. every pilot makes their own decision about their moral considerations, what are you going to do in this situation, the wing man mentality is to look out for the people in the airplane and the people on the ground. i promise you that had they had choices and time, and they were able to i want to bring in chad myers, chad s got a question for you. tell me a little bit, you talked about what was going through the pilot s mind. describe a pilot who knows his plane is not going to fly anymore. what s the thought process, and i m sure you think about four minutes worth of things in about four seconds. what is that process like when you re in a plane? it s one of the most unique processes in the world. i have to say in my case, i m long since being a navy pilot, but it shaped the rest of my life because it put every challenge into sequential order and in this case, in milliseconds.