Re: There's something fundamentally important they're missing.
> Take the old classic of the perfectly Airbus that ran off the end of a runway in Poland.
From your description, it sounds like the one where the pilot made a really smooth landing. A bit too smooth in fact.
Since then, procedure has been changed and the advice is to go for a firm landing on contaminated runways. There were also other recommendations concerning other aspects related to runway design, maintenance and monitoring.