Originally Posted by
KC10 FATboy
If you didn't pop the TRs or hit the brakes, the plane would eventually stop. I didn't say they were useless, and in the 145, they might make a difference. In the planes where I've had them, they only changed the ground roll by a few hundred feet --- yes, a few hundred feet. Sure, that could save your behind in a situation like this. Slats, flaps, and spoilers (not to mention brakes) were more important to the landing ground roll.
However, the point was, and still is, we have no idea what happened and the lack of TRs is premature at best.
As another pilot on here who has 1000+ hours on the EMB-145, put me on the list of those who think that this plane definitely would not have had an overrun if they had TRs installed.
Sure, maybe they floated or touched down fast, that'll all come out after an investigation, but, even if all that happened, they'd have stopped several hundred feet sooner with reverse. They really make a difference in the ERJ.
Why on earth would anyone order this machine without thrust reversers.