Originally Posted by
Centaurus
One major Australian airline operating a Boeing 747 over-ran a 10,000 ft runway following a botched touch down in heavy rain. Due to a combination of crew errors the autobrake was inadvertently disarmed without the crew being aware. From that experience, the operator mandated that autobrakes were to be armed for every landing on its 737 fleet, regardless that the incident aircraft was a Boeing 747.
Autobrake had nothing to do with that particular screw up. Lack of spoilers and reverse was much more pertinent.