I don't get all the negativity here. (Well, this IS APC, so I guess it kind of makes sense) From all available details, the crew did an outstanding job. Enough so that the CP (or someone high up in the company) put out a notification about the event and congratulated the crew. I think the event turned out very well, and congratulate the crew on managing the threats for a successful outcome.

We all would prefer to go years without ever getting into a situation like this one. But Murphy has more to say about it than we do. And I for one would MUCH prefer to have been in their situation than in the CP's office explaining bad (or lack of) decisions being made. Or worse, the cause of the company having to pay some random farmer for the ruined crop of corn.

At the end of the day, it is impossible to say what "I would have done" because we were not in that cockpit. Pucker factor changes things.