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Luck and great engineering. You're right, by the pilot's admission he was only along for the ride once the plane disintegrated. The headline could be seen as a bit misleading, but the story as told by the pilot is pretty interesting.

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Reminds me of a quote attributed to Picasso: Inspiration exists, but is has to find us working. The hard engineering work and planning is what enabled the good luck to exist.

"along for the ride" as 100 engineer's work simultaneously attempt to keep him alive.

The work of the engineers that kept him alive was all done before the accident, not simultaneous to it. When the accident was unfolding, the engineers were either unaware or assumed the pilot was dead.

I parsed it the way you did at first, but on second reading, I believe it could be rephrased to "the work of 100 engineers simultaneously attempt" to make it clear the simultaneity referenced all the various systems working together.

Ah, my dyslexic brain might have misused an apostrophe?

My belief is that "engineer's work" changed the subject to the work.

Whilst "engineers work" makes the subject the engineers. Is that right or wrong?

“100 engineer’s” isn’t grammatically correct to begin with. You need either “100 engineers” or “100 engineers’”. The parent post assumed the former and you the latter.

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