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
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 hillyard. 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 as they were bringing the plane in for a landing. the errors started early.