Old 09-04-2010, 04:37 AM
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Originally Posted by wldplt View Post
That they did but according to investigators they still should have stopped in the remaining runway based on the expected performance of the brakes.
I agree that the investigation, as reported by the newspaper, said brake performance. I believe that what was really meant was that the tires did not have enough friction on the wet runway to stop the aircraft, and that the assumptions about runway/tire friction were wrong.

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