"It appears to me the crew made the right decision." The Sultan.
It is not the right decision to abort after V1. It's stupid and very dangerous.
For some reason there is an alarming trend of RTOs after V1. Ditto the Tradewinds B742 abort at Rio Negro, Colombia; TWA L1011 at JFK, among others .
Perhaps due to a lack of training or lack of comprehension of demonstrated jet airplane performance over the past 48 years: These so called "experienced" captains who shouldn't be anywhere near an airplane to begin with, are trying to justify aborts after V1.
One of the universal training criteria practiced over and over in the simulator is for the captain to remove his paw from the thrust levers by V1 and to not even think about attempting to stop.