Originally Posted by
procede
They landed on the longest runway in North America, so I really do not see why they needed the reversers...
I can understand them not wanting to use the slats, but why would the flaps would not work?
Well, if the cowling hit the flaps, maybe they didn't or could use them to land, came in hot and still needed reversers? I don't see the slats deployed in the video of the landing from inside the plane.