Tu.144,
I know, I do fly myself. But there are always more than one reason to such a mishap, and the only thing we all can do is learning from it.
A lot of arguments about how "poor" airmanship the pilots performed in this thread helps noone, the pilots didn't get up that morning to land on the wrong runway.
And I bet most pilots, myself included, has made a bad decision at some point in their carreer, now the real challenge is how do we prevent it in the future, as you also write :o)