Con acts in the heat of the moment. You drive your lightsaber through the back of the chair and the pilot cries out as you pierce him. He slumps against the controls and you dive to catch them. You roll... a 14. You manage to pull up, but the bottom of the dropship drags along the top of the cliff, which violently throws you against the controls and you hit your head...
The dropship is atmospheric only, so yes. The pilot is counting on the dropship going unnoticed amongst the others heading back to the starport, and from there you can snatch a ship.
The pilot is extremely frustrated with you for crashing the dropship. It is pretty battered already, he was worried it wouldn't take off. But it seems to be in working order, and the pilot tells you to strap in as he sends the dropship soaring out of the mountains, back to civilization.
The pilot says just be ready to leap out of the dropship with him and make a run for a parked starship while everything explodes around you from blasterfire. Once you leave the ship, the ruse is up.
The dropship emerges from the mountains on the edge of the Vono'k capital, the fires of war having been put out since the attempted assault by Sparnik. As you enter its airspace, the dropship is contacted.
"Dropship 1138, why have you returned from your scouting mission?" comes the message.