Originally Posted by ShyGuy

Correct.

The most recent airline disaster involving a landing and a G/A attempt was the Air India Express Boeing 737NG at Mangalore India. It's true they touched down about 5,000 down a 8,000 ft runway, but Boeing showed that had they hit full brakes and full reverse, they would have stopped at the end of the runway in the paved overrun. Instead, the crew elected a late G/A and the rest is history. The airport sits on a hill in a "tabletop" runway scenario and the plane went down the cliff and killed everyone except 8 lucky people who were in the tail section that broke off earlier.

" Analysis of the accident revealed that had the pilot "deployed reverse thrust and applied maximum manual braking at touchdown", the aircraft could have been stopped within the paved overrun area of the runway. The captain had exacerbated the long landing by attempting a go-around following deployment of the thrust reversers "