examining the mud covered landing gear of the charter plane that carried governor mike pence. it was just before 8:00 p.m. on a rainy, windy night when the flight came in for a landing. suddenly, trouble. >> stop, stop. >> reporter: the plane was too far down the runway. >> we have an emergency in the airport. >> reporter: onboard with pence nbc news campaign embed vaughn hilliard. >> we started to go and slide off and that's when we came to a complete halt. >> reporter: the plane stopped just 300 feet from the highway thanks to the crushable concrete arrester beds like this at the end of the runway. >> okay. so that whole thing happened october 27th. it's right before the presidential election. a couple things about this incident. first of all, the ntsb did a full investigation and came to a very clear and damning conclusion what went wrong. their determination it was clearly pilot error. the co-pilot was at the controls