Originally Posted by
lolwut
I'm pretty sure the most prudent course of action is to divert well before you ever reach the "I have to declare an emergency in order to land" point. Then again, I don't know the whole story behind what happened...
You are an RJ F/O, and you are going to tell the Captain of a Heavy, coming into JFK after an ocean crossing, what's prudent? How much EXPERIENCE do you have in his world?
Good luck with that.
And no, you don't know the whole story, obviously.