Who is dragging their feet? We do not know what went wrong and it could have been a series of factors, several of which do not involve AW.
It is just speculation at this time, like posted by Mr. Lappos.
Rather, it would be interesting to find out how long the MRBs (and hence the TRBs, provided they were still there) took to stop, considering the rotor brake will not work in a ditching.