In answer to your 2nd Q Er. . . ? Skavsta ? Fortunately with no injury except to the (end of anyhow? ) career, if I remember correctly.
Nonetheless, agree wholeheartedly with your assessment, pretty damn gash.
0730, after Glasgow & back from the Canaries, is not the best time to save 5 min by overloading your colleague , as you say, gash.
Anyone could have done it, but hopefully most of us would have swallowed our pride & thrown it away @ 500', or at latest crossing the threshold @ 180' at VREF +41.