It troubles me the lack of sympathy for two kids. The article states they couldn’t hear the plane. Who cares why. If they were taking selfies of themselves to capture the incoming plane you might argue “they had it coming” because the plane would be getting huge in their viewfinder. But if the article is accurate that isn’t what they were doing.
It sounds to me they were kids being kids, and having been to Mexico and knowing they don’t know the first thing about safety I don’t blame the kids at all. A rural airstrip is not the tarmac at JFK.
The mother is a saint and prayers for the souls of the girls.
Shouldn't the pilot have scanned the landing strip before landing?
It's not clear to me from the information provided that the kids did anything that was obviously, extraordinarily dumb. This seems more like garden-variety bad luck.