I am amaze that the pilots of this fight are being praise so highly for not panicking and keeping calm and following their years of training.
Everyone who had any time at all in any type of aircraft had been in situations that had gone bad very bad and where you allow your training and your logic to take control.
Your emotions and your fears at such times are far in the background and this ability to perform in this kind of situation is common not uncommon in human beings.
I remember once taking off with my CG way off and I could not keep the nose of the plane down and was seconds from stalling out and the only emotion that I can remember having was a brief curse that a 747 pilot was at the field that day watching and I was about to
[email protected]@#$# in front of him.
Emotions tend to happen after the fact not during the situation.