rely on the fact that the people maintaining that airport are doing the right thing. you've also got the downwind leg going here. the wind behind the landing, which is difficult even on a dry runway. you can't deploy the thrust reversers or the wing spoilers which plant you on the ground really strongly. you can't do that until the flat switches have compressed on the landing gear they have to be all the way down and then you can put the thrust reversers, which are clam shell doors that come out of the back of the engine and push back. so when he talked about feeling the gripping on the ground partially, what that is as well is the thrust reversers coming out. because they have a very strong you can hear those engines come back up again and push back and that's what i think may have happen here is it didn't get planted firmly in the first place, therefore they ran out of runway. >> what we want to find out is whether or not they just got lucky. not going into the water was because the pilot did the right thing and those from air traffic