19.06.2008, 14:10
I agree that was a horrible way to die, but would you let a enemy plane that is just smoking get away? What if he makes it home and comes back with the same repaired plane and shoots down 2 bombers full of people? When you could have saved them all by shooting him down. Yes like others have said war is hell. The german could have pulled up and then jumped out. They were going fast enough to make a nice zoom climb to get enough alt to have the chute open.
Fiedler could have pulled up next to him and told him to bail, but what if the german would have taken advantage of that and pulled back, shot Fiedler, then bailed out or go home? Would you take that chance?
Also when that pilot jumped out at that speed, he would have died almost instantly. That dogfights animation made it seem like he was alive after the first bounce. He would have been a rag doll already dead from the first bounce.
And Fiedler also regreds that decision to shoot him. At the time there was no time to think of that stuff. They were on the deck, going over 300mph, in a valley during a war.
Fiedler could have pulled up next to him and told him to bail, but what if the german would have taken advantage of that and pulled back, shot Fiedler, then bailed out or go home? Would you take that chance?
Also when that pilot jumped out at that speed, he would have died almost instantly. That dogfights animation made it seem like he was alive after the first bounce. He would have been a rag doll already dead from the first bounce.
And Fiedler also regreds that decision to shoot him. At the time there was no time to think of that stuff. They were on the deck, going over 300mph, in a valley during a war.