May I suggest that there is actually two issues here.
Firstly, whether a private comment should be repeated on a public forum - sorry, pinkaroo, but that is bad form.
Secondly, and more importantly, if we assume that the pilots were, shall we say, a bit spooked by this (whether or not that is the real case), whether they should:
a) have charged on regardless or
b) stopped and said 'actually, I'm a bit shaken and would rather not fly'.
I know which one I'd rather they took. And I get a bit nervous of the folks on this thread who think that it's not the done thing to say that you've been spooked.
Spooked and honest about it = delayed flight
Spooked and macho about it = operating at significantly less than 100% and increasing the risk associated with any subsequent incident.