re: Pilot of Southwest flight with blown engine was one of Navy's first female fighter pilots

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FFS, I've answered it twice now.

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You haven't answered it twice. You've talked about the added pressure of the situation and it being non-routine, but you haven't said from a purely technical perspective why it is more difficult.

Again, in my scenario, the whole thing is a simulation and no lives are at stake. Do any of the physical things that happened make it much more difficult to land the plane?

Since you like sports analogies, let's compare this to kicking in football. Pilots study and practice flying with engine failure. Now, you've got an NFL kicker making 40 yard field goals in practice. Nobody is impressed, he should be able to do that. Make that 40 yarder with the game on the line in the super bowl, and everyone loses their mind he's the best kicker ever. Yes, pressure in a situation makes everything seem more difficult and some people can't cope with it. But when you take away all of the external factors that should -technically- impact the task...was it really all that more difficult? It just seems more difficult.

I'm being very sociopathic about all of this. It sucks that the woman died and it's awesome that the pilot was clutch in landing the plane while sucking oxygen through a mask (do pilots get better masks than passengers? I bet they do...)