Another lurker here, I hardly ever post.
I agree with those saying what a good job the ATC did, she'll be distraught I imagine.
Am I the only person getting increasingly agitated by the media, including BBC radio, consistently still misreporting this.
A direct quote from the Guardian, but similar on the Beeb:
Just before going silent the pilot made a final plea to land: “Vectors, seņorita. Landing vectors.”
The implication from all these media outlets being that ATC was somehow preventing them from landing, or that they unreasonably asked them to hold, when clearly by that stage the Pilot had no idea even where the runway was. There's no mention of the fact that as soon as the ATC realized the emergency, without the flight crew properly notifying, she got 2 other aircraft out of the way.
It feels like the tone is of a Pilot who made the sort of fuel slip-up that any pilot could have made, being killed with most of the passengers by an unsympathetic ATC. Completely the reverse.