[dredmorbius]

History says otherwise.

Most runway overruns occur with no or few fatalities:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42606790>

[nhinck3]

I looked into all of those and of the ones that had speeds available, they were half or less than half the speed at the time of overrun

[blueflow]

Yes, because the speed was lower. Kinetic energy increases with speed squared. Uncontrolled 300 km/h on the ground kills you in any vehicle.

[dredmorbius]

That's a fair argument, and I've noted the kinetic energy aspect elsewhere in this discussion.

That said, based on my observations of the terrain past the runway / airport threshold, it seems to me that absent the Muan Murder Wall, survivability would have been far higher in this case. See: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42607464>

I've yet to find a source that does a better job of organising incidents by landing speed / profile in a way which might better provide for more direct comparisons.