Like it or not, Ziegler reached out across the years and cradled them all the way to the water
Rubbish. Any Captain on the day, matters not whether Airbus or Boeing, as likely as not would have had a similar outcome. The TACA 733 deadstick onto the New Orleans levee without damage takes a bit of beating in my book. How would a festering computer have handled that one? Autocue a PA "Prepare to meet your maker" perhaps.