I agree that too much hero status is given to pilots who crash land planes, but this is about landing gear failing to deploy correctly from a spanking-new, all-electronic cockpit and plane.
It's irresponsible of them to suggest that the passengers were in any sort of danger, and to suggest that this incident has any connection to a completely different (and time-honored) design that rolled out of the factory 20 years ago also landing without a gear halfway across the world.