Well, I wouldn’t trust anything about aviation in the Daily Mail. Remember that Spanair MD-88 that crashed in Madrid a few years back because the pilots didn’t set the flaps for takeoff? A couple days after that happened, the DM had huge screaming headlines that they had a picture of “the stricken airplane with its engines ON FIRE!” Turns out it was a stock photo of another MD-88 from the same airline, with a different paintjob, with those two slightly-smoky JT8Ds at normal takeoff power.
It didn’t look like the plane hit the water particularly hard...simple runway overrun? Maybe the pilot floated long on the landing (and floated and floated and floated until he was, well, floating). Like you said, there’s no way a 737-800 should run off the end of a 9800-foot runway on landing. They don’t need anywhere near that much pavement to stop.
}:-)4
Yet... a way was found.