However, my limited understanding of Cessna 310s is that they look much better than they fly, especially with only one engine running. Also, those big tip tanks don't help the handling much, either, but they sure look cool!
So, I think he's probably a decent pilot, as well as being a lucky one.
Whatever his interpretation of his situation might have been in the moment, right or wrong, and crashing is almost always ruled pilot error and likely will be in this case, too, he didn't miss it by much.
Yuh know...I owned and flew a 310 for 15 years.
Never even got close to something like that.
You keep a 310 high and close in, drop the barn door flaps on short final, point the nose at the numbers and you can grease it on just fine.
If the tower puts you on a long final behind somebody, you just fly it to the fence. Keep the power up (20” MP, 2600 RPM), 30 deg flaps to short final, then dump them to full 45 deg.
Not the best way to fly a VFR approach but safe.
Never had a problem. Home field was a 3800’ strip in an urban area and usually was off on the midfield taxiway.
It’s a great airplane, but you do have to fly it.