Vertigo
Well it either came in on the fastest routing possible, bearing in mind that it could ahve been a catastrophic fire in the first place, or we could have vectored around the sky for God knows how long and it would have crashed elsewhere. What makes one location more deserving than another?!
At the end of the day, my job ain't to decide which portions of (extremely congested) airspace should be restricted to emergency stricken planes, only to make sure that we get them down in the quickest and safest way possible. Which we did. I'm sure the 400 Quantas passengers and the numerous crew were chuffed. And i'm willing to bet you would have been if it was you at the helm. Or maybe you'd rather we stuck on an extra 50 miles to land you on 09L with your tail on fire.....