You don't work for the Daily Mail by any chance hunt? It sounds very much as though you have an 'angle', just like the rest of those sharks.
This was an emergency situation. Neither the aircraft nor the crew would be employed in such a manner unless there was imminent danger of loss of life. There's also the example of firemen who are trained to use a system for keeping track of who is in a burning building - unless the instant they arrive they can see a casualty in immediate peril, in which case they can just pile in and extract them as fast as possible. They don't get many complaints.