Crab in regards the recent event S92 to be fair to the crew they all walked away. Job well done!
No doubt the various stakeholders while now analyse, as of course they should, to see if the job could be done any better. But in a heavy helicopter full of PAX a malfunction like they had is not an easy proposition AND I suspect mostly because you can never really be sure exactly what has caused it and therefore time pressure creeps in. Especially with recent Transmission histories on the heavies.
My initial thoughts were why they did not look for a long runway. However faced with the distance, the uncertainty of the cause and the eventual outcome, without knowing all the details I think the crew did a tremendous job.
In training this is the one drawback of the brief. It means most of the time the student has no doubt what has caused the malfunction. Real life is just not like that. The uncertainty can forces more time pressure than we can never simulate in training.