it is pretty much word for word what I have been saying for months here
Yes, and I recall you getting much the same reaction as Langewiesche's multi-thousand word work of factoid fiction. By this I mean that by the time I'd finished reading it, I'd grown tired of realising that this wasn't quite right, or that was downright wrong but frankly, by the time I'd waded through it, I'd concluded that it would have been a total waste of time had I not got months of prior reading. I would not have gleaned a detailed truth.
We all know we could handle the situation, yes, and this includes my 80 year-old bones, if we had the hindsight of the crash details. While you can draw some conclusions from the prior flight, the third hand may have been a god-send that saved the day and we have no idea what would have happened if he'd not been on board.