now, I am use to the order : go around...or even : execute published missed approach...but not overshoot.
Might be the semantics mismatch discussed earlier. In Britsh/expat/Indian aviation English, overshoot can mean a go around, but it can also mean what we would call a runway overrun.
And, the report of the overshoot call on the CVR could be over the radio, or within the cockpit. Often, an ATC transcript is released or leaked before the CVR transcript is available and the headline writers sometimes don't know the difference.
Much of the accident news coverage takes an official's sound bite, it it misquoted by a writer not familiar with aviation terms and 'experts' add their commentary. Sounds kinda like PPRune come to think of it. Just kidding, of course.
As discussed here and in the news, philosophies concerning touchdown point, use of automation and paperwork penalties for a missed approach are areas that may yield clues to causes of this mishap.
Should have some good CVR and FDR data to work with soon it looks like...
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Here's a video clip that contradicts the Times' report of an ATC order to 'overshoot':
Air India crash in Mangalore: Data box found
Good reporters but obviously not totally familiar with the operational aspects of the landing, as would be expected.