By all means Tacloban is a long runway...but it isn't when you land at more than half the runway (ATC's account of where the aircraft touched down).
Pilots broke off a VOR approach to do a visual at pilots discretion. That's fine and dandy, but do so in order to make a NORMAL approach and landing. Can't make it? Simple GO-AROUND!!! Another case of "machoism".
Am sure that they are a bunch of nice guys...but they made a mistake...administratively, they should face the consequences.
PAL didn't even use the emergency chutes!!! At $10,000 a chute, they would prefer to ROLL the pax stairs to a door that resembles the height of the stairs, and evac through that door. How pathetic!
Just my two cents.