The often repeated question is: would you get into a plane if someone told you there was a ten-to-one chance it would crash?

Pulling up hard, Stricklin was trying to get the plane into a position in which he just might survive an ejection and still spare the crowd below.

So, in fact, you know, when you plug in these things, normally you get a quantity that's of a form, something times t plus a constant because that's what you plug into the equation of a plane.