Comment by cat_plus_plus

That's some major scapegoating of flight crew, when their airline clearly has not maintained the plane properly and caused engine failure in the first place and airport failed to provide adequate ground control support. Easy to be a backsit driver/pilot when you are not flying a damaged plane over the ocean with nobody acknowledging that you have an emergency. Ideally sure, pilot and first office would have done everything by the book and maybe landed at airport safely. But life is never ideal, and I wonder if Transair offered a lot of paid time on simulator to periodically review every likely emergency scenario. Copilot saved captain's life by directing rescue crew to leave him alone in the water and focus on captain first, so I don't think they are horrible human beings.