There was also an incident near Broome in Western Australia involving a Dash 8 and a large bird, a 30cm crack to the main spar, loss of a hydraulic system, subsequent in flight shutdown...etc etc and the dash only does 242 kn!
250 below 10000 wouldnt have helped.
Managed risk I guess... we could play the "what if" game all day.
One thing I have noticed though is that When ATC ask for max speed on descent we are having a great day if Progress page 1 shows a one minute savings in time!