This article makes it seem more dramatic and spur-of-the-moment than other writings on the same topic I've read. The Wikipedia article on Jack Garman asserts (

This article makes it seem more dramatic and spur-of-the-moment than other writings on the same topic I've read. The Wikipedia article on Jack Garman asserts (unsourced) that they'd generated a 1202 alarm in simulations and Bales had (incorrectly) called for an abort there. So it was actually a rehearsed scenario, with an analyzed "should go anyway" decision.