OK, I definitely believe you that it's the right thing to do and that the pilot knew what they were doing (in your case and in the Colombian Amazon), but, my su

OK, I definitely believe you that it's the right thing to do and that the pilot knew what they were doing (in your case and in the Colombian Amazon), but, my suggestion is that that sort of scare is more common with the very old DC3s. A guy I knew there, who had served in the Colombian army, was clearly pretty scared of having to take the DC3.