Actually, Lone, I have had a tail rotor failure in flight and I did get it down in one piece. Good analogy!
But fair enough comment on my quote. I didn't mean to show that the guy who wrote the article said anything about recognizing and reacting to a "roll off." Here's how I should have written it (hindsight being as sharp as it always is).
If this turns out to be a genuine case of "roll off," then I wonder why the pilot didn't simply beep the nacelles forward and fly out of it? That is the so-easy-a-child-could-do-it response to a roll-off, no?
The question still stands.