alf, you're stretching logic to pardon the crew and blame the system by suggesting that if they had landed in the right place that the possibility of a run-off still existed. Perhaps it did, but that was not the cause of the accident - their excessive speed from poor runway choice and, more critically, their failure to land in the right place are the causes. Both errors could have gone without harm if they had done the right thing and firewalled the thrust levers to go around. They decided to press a very bad landing and therein lies the prime cause.