[Seahawk]

I can't speak for the other services, but in naval aviation it is essential that, regardless of the emergency, it is better to be cool and screw pooch than panic over the radio and survive the carnage.

"It's better to die than look bad" is the prevailing ethos...if you're cool and ball it up folks will assume you were doing everything possible, that no one could have stuck the landing. If you babble like a brook and survive all your buds will naturally assume you got lucky.

It is what it is.

Sully managed that flight about as well as you're going to manage any crisis.