Jesus, you're missing my point. I'm not commenting on how his manouevre ended, I'm saying the suggestion that he a) blacked out but then b) recovered just in time to make any sort of recovery seems a bit of a stretch.
Don't be so sanctimonious. The verdict doesn't affect me but I do feel sympathy for the families who will be - at best - disappointed with this verdict and at worst - devastated. I understand how the legal process works, "beyond reasonable doubt" etc but I'm an accountant, a man of numbers...
Grrr! I didn't say he ejected himself. Maybe it is you who could not be commenting. I quote from the news report on the verdict:
Derek Davis, chairman of the air show’s flight control committee, said the jet “just continued waffling down” as if the pilot was “doing nothing” until a...
So bottom line is he might have blacked out for a few seconds, long enough to mess up the key part of the manoeuvre but regaining consciousness just in time to save himself.
I'm sure people will make their own minds up about that.