"Let us not sit here and judge what he did prior to the engine failure"
I throw up a little in my mouth when I hear this described as an engine failure.
Much more accurate is, "The engines stopped as they are designed to do when there is no longer any fuel entering the combustion chamber." This was not the fault of the engine...it was the fault of the mechanics and the pilots (yes, our Hero
Piche) for allowing the fuel exhaustion to take place.