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Old 3rd Feb 2017, 16:47
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Originally Posted by Airbubba
From the report, it appears that the aircraft never touched down on the runway at all, it was 900 meters past the far end of runway 26 before it contacted the ground.
Google Translate renders that part of the report, somewhat ambiguously, as "900 meters from the far end of the runway".

That could conceivably be interpreted as either 900m before the end, or 900m beyond the end.
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