But as usual the FAA will defend the controllers. Not to insult the ATC guys here or anything but there are some controllers that think they are god but in truth are *******s. SRQ for example and big ups now to DFW in their running for ******* ATC award. Emergency means emergency bottom line and that is that. Pilot get final say in an emergency and if I were the PIC on that bird I would have probably called F it and went with it regardless. Fuel emergency and smoke on board fall into a higher cat for me than med on board.
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