I didn't actully ever intend to post on this forum, I'd rather leave that to the experts but having read this posting I feel compelled to contrubute for the first and probably the last time.
I'm not a Pilot nor even cabin staff, my only link to the Aircraft industry was many years spent in the Research and Development Dept at Rolls Royce, but for the life of me I do not see what all this fuss is about. A fully trained Pilot made a decision based on the information he had at hand at the time. Nobody else on this forum, especally the armchair sim pilots knows what the aircrafts Pilot saw out of his windscreen. The plane stopped, passengers alighted , no injurys, no deaths, not even injured pride.
The pilot made the correct decission 
end of story. when I fly I want this pilot who dosen't take unnessary chances at the pointy end and I'm sure all of his or her passengers feel the same.
Arthur