I do not know if Father Dick Byrne is a troll or whether he just has a very poor grasp of flight deck procedures, air traffic procedures and what actually happened on that day in LAS.
DODAR would not have been an appropriate tool for that situation and was not used.
As for “Controllers are warned not to interrupt flight crew who may be busy,” I think any controller reading this would tell a pilot that they could see flames if they thought the pilot was unaware, even if they knew they would be busy.
As for the safety record of the airline concerned. If I am correct their last long haul fatal accident was as mentioned a Boeing 707 almost 50 years ago where 4 passengers died. A brave stewardess who went back into the smoke to try to rescue them also died. I wonder if all of the other long haul operators Father Dick Byrne apparently favours have been operating since that time without any fatal accidents too.