The real question here is that the pilot had altitude, speed, wind, pressure, distance to r/w and no power, and lacked the necessary skills to fly the aircraft until a safe landing. Coulda and shoulda made it. Sorry if this sounds harsh.
Could write a book about that but, very briefly, there's a hughe difference between:
Relaxed and undisturbed, sorting out well ordered, hindsight immagination
and
real-time anxiety, when the brain is (pre-)occupied, sorting out lots of additional totally (ir)relevant matters. (even including matters from the (very recent) past).
All at the very same instant, whilst the clock is ticking much faster than in the 'armchair' . . .
In addition: You're also not alone, up there . . .