Yeah - fair enough.
I didn't phrase my post very carefully.
The nearest that you can safely land at.
But certainly when you are just minutes after take off, you are pretty likely to be returning to the same strip unless longer tarmac and better emergency cover is at another venue nearby.
The story sounds a bit like the United (?) 767 which had an engine failure on t/o or climb-out from AMS in the last 2 years, with spectacular photos capturing it before it returned a few minutes later.