How many aviators were present? captain, training captain, training captain in training, a flight officer etc? If they couldn't have held it together with this much brain power and hands/ears/eyes on deck well shuck's, really time to eliminate all pilots, give raises to the cabin crews and go center in command from gate to gate.
True, there was a lot of combined experience there. That was advantageous but.....only because they managed the resources well, and communicated well. I can easily imagine that many people involved being a hinderance if they weren't really well coordinated,knowing when to speak, when to listen, whats important whats not etc etc. Not every group of pilots/cabin crew would get a good result out of that scenario communications-wise. Well done I say.