Perhaps some of you need to stop and think before you accuse the pilot of bad captaincy. Seems to me he went above and beyond the call, he could have just said "tech" and parked it.
Instead, he did all he could to solve the problem, communicated with his pax about the nature of the problem and his fix, and then gave them the choice as to whether or not they wanted to travel- probably because he realised some would be nervous. He could have left these tasks to engineers and handling agents (but then of course there probably wasn't an engineer for 100 miles, and many handling agents are less than helpful in these situations).
The "facts" are somewhere between sketchy and fantasy, but a little less jumping to conclusions would be in order, don't you think?