KLN94
I think you are missing the point. The idea of having a professional crew in a Jet to retrieve you, be it charter or air work is that they operate in a safe and professional manner. Had they done this, a perfectly servicable aircraft would not be an artificial reef by now.
When the penny started to drop they were not going to have a flight according to plan, they still had options in my opinion and somebody (ATSB or CASA take note if you read this) should investigate why and what pressure was there not to use a runway at the end of an ILS over their right shoulder. Unless someone can show me why they would not have made that runway.