Sounds like it all ended happily in the end. If you are on your own and things go wrong, then I can only offer the wise words my instructor offered many moons ago 'Panic Slowly'. Works every time (even when the retractable undercarriage wouldn't)
I had a radio failure earlier this year. I was pretty sure the whole unit was trashed, but continued to broadcast my intentions blind as I was trained. It turned out only my receive was broken and everyone along the way heard my calls, even if I stepped on a few people's calls along the way.