Kingfish writes:

You've contradicted your earlier position with this statement. Without
crew cooperation (how many did it take to control the crippled acft?)
all would have been lost.

In part, yes. But that's not flying skill.

Remind me again, how someone with no flight time would have *any*
insight into this?

Flight time is not a prerequisite for such reasoning.

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