Originally Posted by
hindsight2020
Agreed. The Bone guys putting the jet in KMAF with fire warnings that didn't go out and choosing to save the life of the WSO after his seat did not fire, got DFCs out of the deal. These dudes with a midair, two engines without teeth on the same side, and full of go-juice? Putting that pig on the field upright and controlled without going kaboom probably earns them DFCs, unless they caused the collision. So far, no indications of the latter, so I'm inclined to say these guys walk away with major hardware out this deal.
That was some straight up deep blue hero stuff.
The darker part of that story is they found out none of their seats would have fired for the same reason the student couldn’t get out... but they didn’t know that at the time.