Thanks Wileydog, yes I know the more airspeed you have in this situation the better, This is the avenue I was thinking about, say a a huge engine failure and failure around V2 which would give you zero thrust.
More speed gives you more control but it also gives you more mass that has to be stopped in an RTO.
And we have not determined what type of engine failure it was. A jet engine can continue producing a lot of thrust while it guts itself and with an engine fire, it is still producing thrust, just that fire is somewhere it is not normally found. And it does not appear to be a catastrophic seizure because no one has said anything about the engine being detached from the airplane.
The question I ponder is what caused the airplane to depart the runway and not continue along the runway. Often a high speed reject will have a runway over-run but this was a runway *departure*.