Wow, my bad, the plane was landing. I even read the article before.
The difference between this and the example, Darfur, is that this can easily, well, not that easily, happen to any of us. The plane was an Airbus A320. Those fly all over the world, and throughout the US. People care because right now, people you know might be flying on one, and apparently all it takes is a slippery runway.
The same thing happened with An Air France plane a few years ago in Toronto, but no one died. Probably cause they didn't hit a building.