Court martial? Why not

CNN has the story:

A grandmother, mother and young child died when a military fighter jet crashed into a house in San Diego, California, on Monday, igniting a huge fireball, authorities said. Another child is missing, officials said.
The F/A-18D plane, which authorities described as disabled, was trying to land at MCAS Miramar. The jet had just performed landing training on a Navy aircraft carrier before the pilot reported having trouble, according to the Marine Corps.
The house was destroyed. A photograph taken at the scene showed the pilot, who ejected safely, sitting on the front lawn, making a call on his cell phone. He was taken the hospital, the Marine Corps said in a written statement Monday. The pilot, whose name was not released, was the only occupant of the two-seat aircraft, according to the Marine Corps.
The San Diego Union-Tribune spoke with Steve Diamond, a retired naval aviator, who said he found the pilot in a tree behind a house. He told the paper he helped the man, who Diamond said was a lieutenant in his 20s, down from the tree. The pilot told him that after he lost power in the first engine, it was decided he would try to get the jet to Miramar on the single working engine, Diamond told the paper. The pilot was in communication with military air traffic controllers before the jet crashed, and the crash site is about two miles from the airfield, the Federal Aviation Administration said.
The Marine Corps said it is investigating what went wrong with the plane. The military has jurisdiction over the crash site.

Rico says this should not be an option for military fliers; either you ride it in (hopefully to some non-occupied place), or you make it out over the ocean or the desert, but you don't pull the pin and get out, leaving it to the poor dumb bastards on the ground to deal with...