"what next" - So what about the Student pilot? Wasn't he also innocent?
We know nothing about this case yet, was this maybe the Students first flights? Who knows. But he was in the care of the PIC too.
Nobody deliberately lands wanting to kill someone.
I have had similar discussion regarding similar situation during night flight with SEP, if people would try to land on a motorway instead of into a black hole in the ground.
Not all are born Kamikaze pilots, most people have a survival instinct, and aim is to survive for all.
Video shows pitch on aircraft was pretty high, so they would not have had good vision ahead.
We don't know exactly what happen, if people was unlucky when they tried moving away, and they was at the wrong place at the wrong time, tragic I agree. In aviation we sometimes will be faced with difficult situations, with little time to decide what to do, and maybe plan A did not work out, plan B or Plan C, might not have been ideal, as people got killed.
What would people have said if Captain Sully had hit a boat as he tried landing in the Hudson? Once he committed there was a chance something unexpected could have happen, he could not have worked out all scenarios.
Or had the aircraft broken up and people died, people would have said he should have tried returning to the runway.