Remember, the great thing about reading safety reports is that you would have never done what those guys did.....after all, you know that something bad happened

AND, I guarantee you, that "those" guys would be saying the same thing if it had happened to someone else.

Another thing I will almost guarantee, if you are reading any mishap and know, absolutely stone cold know, that it can't happen to you.....it will be you, someday.

This is the link to the animation, no CVR transcript out there yet, why the late TR deployment, no idea. And I bet, if you talked to the Capt involved, he wouldn't have an idea either.....could have been more concerned with keeping it on the centerline, most likely, IMO, was distracted by the something different approach w/ the autobrakes.

Would a reasonable pilot assume that the TR were gravy to the stop margin, especially if that was the case in every other 73 the company flew, I sure think so. Does every SWA guy out there know the differences now, hell ya.

http://www.ntsb.gov/events/2007/Chic...escription.htm

Again, go read the source NTSB documents. The rwy conditions these guys landed on were worse than the preceding company based on data interpretation from the FDRs. With the rwy condition these guys actually had, they would have had to go full reverse and stay there until the plane stopped.
So, when the NTSB says that the plane could have stopped on the rwy, IMO that's garbage. How many guys out there are going to leave it in reverse that long???? Or when the PM makes the speed callout, are you going to start taking it out of reverse.....until the end of the rwy gets closer and closer.