[Nono]

It did look miraculous to see the thing burning on The Tube.

Yes it sounds like a case of aquaplaning, causing the aircraft to skid out of control while the water beneath the wheels prevented them from getting any grip on the runway. Course it will be argued that the crew could have used variable thrust on the engines to get it lined up again and then reverse thrust to brake. Maybe they were trying to, but just ran out of runway.

Also if there were thunderstorm conditions (which it sounds like) there would have been sudden, completely unpredictable micro-gusts of wind to complicate matters by jerking the plane this way and that.

Also, at the end of that runway (one of Toronto's shorter ones) is a ravine -- I mean right off the end of it. And standing in that ravine is a dense thicket of pylons holding the approach lights for aircraft landing the other way. You go off the end of that thing and you find yourself hurtling down into a ravine while steel pylons tear into your fuel tanks with sparks setting the stuff alight and generally ripping your aircraft to shreds.

So that's how lucky it is that practically no one was even hurt in this "incident".

And with that you´ll excuse me cause I'm at an airport internet café and soon have to catch a flight ...