[dredmorbius]

I suspect it's fair to share the credit. Point being that the pilot utilized the plane's capabilities (and his lack of awareness of the gravity of the situation) to land successfully. Wouldn't surprise me to find other pilots who'd failed at that.

In the case of many of the incidents reported here, the scenarios have been recreated in flight simulators. In the case of UA-232 in particular, I don't believe any of the simulator pilots managed to exceed the performance of Alfred Haynes.

The official NTSB report is opaque on this but suggests simulator results weren't encouraging as far as training to avoid this type of accident:

The DC-10 simulator used in the study was programmed with the aerodynamic characteristics of the accident airplane that were validated by comparison with the actual flight recorder data. DC-10 rated pilots, consisting of line captains, training clerk airmen, and production test pilots were then asked to fly the accident airplane profile Their comments, observations, and performance were recorded and analyzed....

Overall, the results of this study showed that such a maneuver involved many unknown variables and was not trainable, and the degree of controllability during the approach and landing rendered a simulator training exercise virtually impossible.

http://www.airdisaster.com/reports/ntsb/AAR90-06.pdf