emergency landing choices

Well done to the pilot and instructor for getting it down safely without injuries, inside or outside of the cockpit. I didn't much care for the 3-second sound byte of a random passerby browbeating the pilot. "Someone could have gotten hurt" - Yes, but nobody did. You can thank the pilot's skill...

Friend of mine has a nice cropduster, turbo prop. He had fuel contamination in August and had to put it down. His choices were a Nebraska cornfield that had a 7 foot high crop with ears on the plants or a soybean field that was about 3 feet tall. He felt that the soybeans having more of a...