You see worse landings every year at Oshkosh.

A little hard and nose-first but at least he kept it on the ground and didn't bounce-bounce-crash.

Yea. On the ATC recording they say how they are sending him to the largest nearby airport, which has runways big enough to land jumbo jets, so he'd have plenty of space. I'm sure making sure he'd have enough space to bleed off speed without any experience was on their mind.

Not so much lucky as planned; they were sent to PBI because it had a long runway. Also you don't pitch to reduce speed, you reduce power to reduce speed. Then pitch up to maintain glide slope and altitude. That's how you land if you have a feel for it but for someone inexperienced there's the risk they too slow, pitch too far up, and stall. Better to come in a little fast if you have the runway.