Right I’m not thinking.
Something happened [up 200 feet? bird in an engine?]
He dropped, clipped the tree...
The news is just spitting out whatever they hear.
If he had time to clip a tree he had time to eject.
We don’t even know if he ejected or not yet...
If history is any prcedent, it's likely a pilot with his experience would have stayed with the aircraft in an attempt to miss crashing into a populated area.