First - and most importantly, well done to that pilot for getting down safely.
and several other similar comments.......
I find it incredulous to believe that anybody could compliment the pilot for getting down safely in this particular situation. Let's face it - he was bloody lucky to get down in one piece and should never have been up there in the first place with the weather as it was.
Although plodpilot was amongst those praising the pilot for getting down safely, I think his other comments were more correct in that too many pilots allow themselves to make erroneous decisions when there is a VIP passenger. Dame Shirley has a history of being very pushy, although any further thoughts here would be total supposition.