Save a few posts that can't really be taken seriously anyway, has anyone here really "crusified" him?
The reason why I asked if you had read the accident report or not was this bit:
It looks to me that the pilot chose option B believing a fire to be imminent. In that case, we did the world a favor by getting her on the ground and in relatively one piece. He should be commended for that. Lesser people would have pointed it away from the crowd and jumped.
I'll say it again, most likely he was himself reponsible for letting the emergency situation to develop in the first place by mismanaging the plane. Had he had the switch which operates the cooling gills in the correct position no emergency situation would have developed in the first place and he would have most likely flown a rutine display.
From this quote from you it is very easy to think that the plane was suffering from a technical failure that had nothing to with how the pilot flew the plane. He would not have had to do "this world a favor" if he had managed the plane correctly. In this light I find you comment: "He should be commended for that." odd to say the least.
That said,
Someone has said (might be from the bible) "To err is human, to forgive is divine." The pilot was a normal human being just like any of us and human's tend to make mistakes, that's humane. I'm sure he felt bad enough about it afterwards whether he thought it was his fault or not.
If you never do anything or never step out the door nothing bad will probably happen...at least not outside.
But that isn't really a way to live you life. So if this guy got to a point of flying a rare aircraft like the Black 6 he was definately one of those guys that actually did something with their lives. Accidents and sh*t happen, that is life. But again, saying that I don't agree at all with the talks that "he should be commented for it" if his actions caused the whole situation in the first place.
