Buffo was flying the turbolet. Turbolet is Czech-built, high-wing, STOL, unpresurrized twin turboprop. It can be flown at MTOW from 800m grass strip. Ljubljana has 3000m of asphalt runway. Not quite a limiting runway, eh? What if it were ATR flying from 1200m rwy? Hitting the cornfields at 100kt is not particularly survivable.
If you abort above V1 in runway limited situation, rule of the thumb is that speed off the end of the runway is speed above V1 when the abort is initiated multiplied by 10 (source: DLH FCM, chapt 7). And that is with proper abort technique (full spoilers, full brakes and idle thrust). Therefore abort at mere 5 kts above V1 gives you 50 kts as you crush the red lights.
So would I abort about V1 in a transport category airplane? If I have a choice - no. Not just because my SOP tells me so but because it is waaay too
dangerous. Half mass multiplied by the velocity squared can really bite you. And ground behind runway may have too low PCN for your ACN.