Actually, there is a remaining problem, the rescue coordinator's reputation. We can 'Monday morning quarterback' the survivor's actions, they live. Their mistakes, like Aaron Ralston's will be forgotten in the joy of that fact. No blame, recriminations or possibly even future instruction to other such employees will be given. But our rescue coordinator will receive fault no less than a medieval scapegoat - not the pilot, passengers, weather or mountain. Long ago I responded to a man falling into the surf off Tillamook Bay Oregon. Survival time in those freezing and violent seas could be measured in minutes at best. But we went, both engines at full throttle, crew climbing into wet suits with one hand and driving the boat with the other. Normal ETA to his @ position was 10 minutes. Halfway there the port engine 's head cracked. We never located the victim. Somebody either failed to attach the 'hotstart' connections ( electrical lines that keep the engine core heated while docked) or deliberately removed it. We had the rediculous problem of trespass and theft because procedure wouldn't allow for locks ( slows down emergency response time) or a security system due to budget. But the man's brother wanted blame for this 'accident' and a apprentice machinist's mate was determined to be at fault and his career ruined. 4 months later the body washed ashore 60 miles south of us. The coroner determined death by drowning/ exposure- expedited by 4 controlled substances in his bloodstream.