Maybe wait until the NTSB report comes out on the KBUR EMAS overrun before you state it “couldn’t have been controlled.” Granted, the tower controller gave me a substantially less gloomy instantaneous tailwind report 9 minutes prior to the one he gave to the Southwest captain on the accident aircraft, so I went missed and he didn’t. And I was flying something that likely could have handled those conditions much better than a presumably fully loaded 737. Tower gave us direct tailwinds of something like 9 gust 19, an automatic missed approach according to our FOM. Nine minutes later they gave him 10 knots on the tail with no gust, but they did report heavy to extreme precipitation over the airport, to which he replied, “Great.” Sarcastically, I presume. Short runway, wet, with a maximum tailwind? Yes, I think something could have been done...divert to Ontario. Just like the next Southwest arrival was forced to do, due to a disabled aircraft on the runway. I also have opinions on how ATC handled the weather that day, but that’s another post entirely.

I assume your reference to the “EMAS overrun” was to the accident at KBUR, since Midway didn’t have EMAS until the overrun fatality accident there precipitated it’s installation.