At least two witnesses - one a passenger - report the engines were racing or sounding like take-off. Why is everyone ignoring this?
Also:
Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who is on a visit to China, has praised 43-year-old pilot Peter Burkill's "professionalism" for managing to avert a major disaster.
As is most of these cases the flight crew didn't (couldn't) do anything that wasn't utterly straightforward ie choose a speed, keep flying and pray.