Yes, "Fate is the Hunter" relates directly to this event, and decision.
Coffee, tea, and soft drinks are conducing fluids in solid state circuitry. They probably had to replace the components that the liquids reached, at the least. The short circuits may have produced collateral damage in other parts of the system, and a major replacement of equipment may have been required before flight of that plane was possible.
I have done repairs after such events on non aviation equipment. When the company was real lucky, washing out the equipment with distilled, de-ionized water removed all traces of the drink, blow drying at room temperature finished the repair if no solid state component had shorted permanently, and after suitable testing, the unit was returned to service.
Most of the time, paralleling multiple data busses resulted in unacceptable combinations of devices functioning simultaneously, and electronic switch failure.
The pilots were very wise to get on the ground as soon as possible with a modern aircraft.
"Fate Is The Hunter" is an appropriate reference for how bad things can go wrong in this type of event. People unfamiliar with electronic equipment failure modes fail to understand that the movie was in fact, a real possible scenario, not "Hollywood at its worst".
