Didn't take long
'Maybe it says something about the quality of the pilots / planes in those regions'
Not sure what Ross M meant, but i wondered how long before this kind of insinuation would come out.. funny didn't hear this when AF overran in Montreal, Iberia in Colombia or somewhere down there with the 340, when EK did a great deal of damage in JNB or AA in Kingston recently, etc., etc.
Come on guys.... it may well be human error, but lets not regionalize it.
I do agree from first-hand experience that there seems to be an inordinate amount of credit given for smooth landings as an indicator of good performance in the region, and i agree with other commentators that this certainly would not have been an occasion for such a landing if the weather reports and assumed runway surface condition is correct...