Now this is so ignorant, it makes me shudder.
I was criticizing the techniques the paper used to sensationalize the incident not the incident itself.
Had there not been some stopway but a ravine, it could and would have ended like Mangalore! They overshot, and at about 4/5th of the airports I fly into that means disaster!
More scare tactics. You work for the press, don't you?
The crew used the runway that was available to them;
that's what it's there for.