June, (your quote):
"Does this mean that he should not have used that runway?" Certainly it does not mean that ! With the wind almost straight down it, there was ample length for a JP to get airborne: they had been doing so up till then without any difficulty.
"What a shame he did not abort". Quite so - but he had aborted ! The mystery was why he didn't stay down after deciding to do so. One explanation I heard offered was that, when he saw the barrier net raised in front of him, he didn't want to go into it when he could still (he thought) take off over it. But that makes no sense at all. The truth is that no one can enter his mind to explain his action.
A shame, as you say (and I join BEagle in his last remarks).
Danny