> This in turn successively triggered a premature release of the parachute and the backshell, a brief firing of the braking thrusters and finally activation of the on-ground systems as if Schiaparelli had already landed.

It would have been better to do nothing, in the hope that the altimeter data will resume to reasonable values, especially since the article mentions that the error is not supposed to last long:

> Its output was generally as predicted except for this event, which persisted for about one second – longer than would be expected.