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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 ....
Mike pence s campaign jet went off the runway around 7:50 p.m. as it landed at new york s laguardia airport, and it came to rest in some grass at the end of the 7,000-foot runway right after plowing through arrester beds, those, of course, designed for such an occasion, which brings planes to a halt. the incident shut the entire airport down for about 30 minutes. 37 passengers and crew were aboard. none was hurt. the governor himself seemed to be in good spirits. he stepped off the plane before going to meet with fire crews on site to thank them. pence later tweeted, so thankful everyone on our plane is safe. grateful for our first responders and the concern and prayers of so many. back on the trail tomorrow! hillary clinton tweeted her relief that everyone aboard was okay as well. pence did not end up attending a big fund-raiser in new york at trump tower last night. he phoned in instead. joining us now here in studio, nbc news 2016 campaign embed vaughn hilliard. you ve been coveri ....