Experienced players know instantly when their plane is done for. A quick look at the damage indicator and a move of the stick is enough to tell.
Flying a dead stick like that drives me nuts. The plane won't do what I want to do so why waste precious flight time struggling with a doomed aircraft. It's only a matter of time before you stall or are picked off by someone else so may as well let the guy who killed your plane get the credit.
I bail out and get back in the fight with a fresh plane. In CTA or strike some advanced play is to criple a player rather than kill him. That gains time for landing or bombing if that guy doesn't realise and tries to fly a dead aircraft.
I will say if a player deliberately won't bail (and regular players can spot these a mile away) I won't bail for them
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