MaxTow said: "The oft quoted Infraero suggestion that the runway was safe because other a/c managed to stop is ludicrous. An unsafe condition will not result in a catastrophe on every occasion."
While the runway and the airport may not have been truly "safe", we still need to figure out why literally hundreds, indeed thousands, of previous flights managed to stop on that very same runway while this particular airplane did not. CGH may well have been an accident waiting to happen, but what made it happen to this plane, on this landing.