Incorrect, read the AAIB report. He did not bail out, pilot was still in the aircraft when it hit the ground.
If you hit the ground at the bottom of a loop there is no choice where to "put down". It's a very different scenario to the WW2 bomber that had time to select where to ditch.
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In no way defending the pilot, he made a catastrophic misjudgement that cost lives.
You are wrong to say the "whole" manoeuvre was over a busy dual carriageway. The point of contact with the ground was the A27 but if the pilot had started his ill-judged manoeuvre half a second later, 50 foot...