Tragic accident (aren't they all) and only one of four Tristar hull losses if memory serves. This was the second, Eastern 401 being the first and only for many years.
Controversial too. A Brit TV station (Grenada?) did a piece on it that was rather inaccurate.
Wiley, I think you will find that your comment
Listening to CVR in the (was it? - maybe an exaggeration) almost half hour they taxied up and down the runway after landing while the pilots dithered
is not correct.
If memory serves me right the aircraft and taxied the full length of the runway before coming to a stop. the doors were never disarmed, the outflow valves were closed and an evacuation was never ordered.
One possible conclusion is that all the crew were incapacitated due to smoke by that stage. The aircraft landed itself (Cat 3C - way ahead of its time) and the Autobrake brought it to a stop.
Bob Helmreich (of NASA and UT) wrote a paper on it, but I cannot find it anywhere. Sad story and a warning to us all.