Yes Brian but they had a plan B and did not end up ditching in the water and if they did ditch then I would imagine that they would have declared a mayday and at least the F/O would have got a radio call to the Unicom to say come look for us on the west side of the island and the pax and crew would have been given a proper emergency brief and I'm pretty sure the Captain would have ensured his passengers and crew got out before he did.
To expand the analogy of bringing up children then if the kids had left home and got themselves jobs and drove their own cars into the swimming pool because they had left the handbrake off then it would be the kids fault!