"Jay Honeck" wrote in message news:

Stranger still, how long did it take those fire trucks to appear in the
screen after the plane slid to a stop? It seemed close to a full minute,
although my memory could be faulty -- maybe it was 30 seconds. Either
way, what happened to the "trucks chasing the plane down the runway?"
Shoot, it looked like they had enough equipment there to place a fire
truck every 200 feet on that 12,000 foot runway.

Yeah. That was odd. Maybe there's a spped limit for ground vehicles. :-)
As well, has anyone yet explained here why they used so much runway on the
roll out? The news feed I saw had a comment that they stopped with under
1000' to go. Were they just using thrust reversers for most of the rollout
for some reason?

moo