The point I was trying, unsuccessfully, to make was that unless we were there we shouldn't criticise the crew for the decisions they made.
There is no absolute answer in these situations and I don't believe anyone can say, with absolute certainty, that any course of action was the correct one.
The crew, in this instance, got everyone off uninjured, the aeroplane so it seems from the news report was not significantly damaged.
Regardless of what the crew on the day decides someone will arm chair quarterback their decisions and say that they should have done this or done that.
That has to be hard on the crew.