Centaurus,
That nobody got their feet wet is true, however having or not having an electric boost pump has nothing at all to do with it.
If you wish to focus on what happened, why did they end up in the situation they did? I think you of all people subscribe to the theory that better training and critical thinking are the better way to do things. That is what I admire in all of your posts. The exception here is you wish to avoid the laws of physics, not apply your own rules of critical thought and just follow monkey see monkey do and then quote a reference to exactly that. One, where had better teaching and better in flight practise been exercised, as you would typically preach, there would not be a report to quote.
Your writings are always awesome reads, but this is a topic that deserves more critical thinking and less accepting the status quo.
Happy to discuss in private so not to thread drift this any further.