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And we experienced turbulence coming in and when we landed a pretty hard landing and the selfperceived back of the plane starts fish tails and you could feel the plane do things that wasnt straight on the run way like a normal landing would go. The plane continues to proceed down the runway in that way sorry im being moved on the tarmac right now. And then we came to a very, very, sort of quick and harsh halt there on the runway. And everyone is fine on the airplane. There are no injuries. Governor pence and his staff are fine. And there are a lot of rescue crews here. Im not sure if you are s...

If it were not there in this case it is very likely this aircraft would be in the east river and that would be an entirely different situation. so it worked. and that is a good thing and that is a good thing for everybody on board there. >> how does that actually work? how does that kind of a runway work? >> reporter: basically it is a thin veneer of concrete. and it is just like going into, you know, quick sand, if you will. it is a break away concrete that collapses under the weight of the aircraft. and stops it. it is an aarrester system. and very useful in this case certainly prevented inj...