After any kind of incident, self searching begins but one must remember that, whilst one has months in which to come up with alternative courses of action there were only seconds at the time of the incident.
Having been in exactly that situation myself I quite agree. However, I did not go off on long-term sick after it because people were second guessing me. Like the two F/Os in this incident I got back to work and on with the job. I'm afraid, whilst I have nothing but praise for his actions on the day, this, along with the fleeing to the media, has made him look a chump.