Originally Posted by
FullWings
Looking closely at the photo, you can see a short skid mark from what was probably the left gear and it’s angled quite a bit off the runway direction. For an aircraft with ABS, that’s an interesting thing to see....
Indeed. But if the brakes locked up, you would expect a double-black line parallel to the runway, and then making an excursion to one side. A short brake lock-up at 45 degs to the runway is odd for so many reasons.
Its position might suggest a controlled excursion to the right side of the runway, before the big excursion to the left. As if making they were making the 180 to backtrack at too high a speed. But the brake lock-up is still odd.