00:00The nose bucked up, which we were anticipating.
00:12As soon as we hit the ground, as soon as we landed, the plane just veered slightly to the right.
00:18And then, and I thought, this is not, this is not good.
00:30I had to get the nose wheel down as quickly as possible, because if I put the brakes on with the aircraft nose up, the wheels that didn't have anti-skid would explode in about half a second.
00:42The autobrake system had malfunctioned, so he had his feet on the brakes manually breaking the aeroplane.
00:50It just didn't seem as if we were slowing down, we were just going such a high speed the whole time.
01:02You know, you would never have thought we were going to have stopped at all.
01:05I was actually hassling Rich, just telling him to brake.
01:16You know, I called it a couple of times, I said brakes, you know, brakes.
01:20And he said, I am, and I said, no, get into it.
01:22He said, I am, and I put my foot up, feet up on the pedals to make sure he did have his feet flat to the floor, and there was nothing left there.
01:30It looked like it wasn't going to stop.
01:35I think they only had about 100 metres left of the runway.
01:41I wanted to get to those fire crews as quickly as possible.
01:45The fire engines were all waiting just off the runway, I could see them all, and I wanted to be right next to them.
01:51They were my friends.
01:52There was an enormous sense of relief when it pulled up and we parked the brake.
02:02Everybody just clapped.
02:04It was just sheer, sheer relief, even though, as I say, it was a bumpy landing, but it was just sheer relief.
02:11People were calling their loved ones, texting their loved ones to say that they are alive, that we made it.
02:16I remember thinking, okay, we made it, good, job done, but it wasn't, it just changed.
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