In fairness to garpal gamnut, I don't think he's suggesting the pilots displayed anything other than flying skills second to none when the chips were down. He's simply pointing out had the chips descended any lower, all the expert flying in the world would not have been enough to save the aircraft, its passengers, crew and those on the ground who would have died had it plunged into even a moderately populated area following the potential "Kegworth-esque" final loss of power in the damaged engines.