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[Jetmek_03052]

Don’t know much about the systems on a 747 - never worked on one.

But I do believe you are correct. Probably the anti-skid system was compromised by the lack of valid hydraulics and either didn’t work at all or was limited in its effectiveness.

The runway wasn’t icy. I don’t know if it had water on it due to weather conditions. And I don’t know the runway length or where he touched down in the landing sequence (wasn’t able to open that YouTube link to watch it). All those things would affect the distance of the roll out.

If it was a complete hydraulic failure and they couldn’t get the flaps out, the speed over the fence would’ve been increased quite a bit. And did you say the TR’s were (or were not) deployed? If not, even more runway length would be needed.

Probably you’re right about pilot error. That’s the most prevalent cause of mishaps.

But still - this may have been just one of those accidents where a series of unfortunate events piled up and the aircraft simply ran out of runway, no matter what the pilot could do.