“It’s a jet. They slow down by reversing thrust not by rubber on pavement.
Unless I’m wrong at which point someone could explain how planes land in the antartic.”
Jets are normally slowed by spoilers over the wings that pop up on touchdown specifically to dump lift and put the full weight of the aircraft in it’s main gear thus allowing the friction brakes the traction they need to work. They are also slowed but not stopped by reverse thrust which is half to 3/4 of the total braking effort on landing.
That said every jet by law must be able to come to a complete halt with zero engine or one engine idle trust from takeoff speed of V1 in the remaining runway distance. This set the design point for that aircraft’s maximum braking effort as the plane is at max takeoff weight during it’s testing as well. MTOW is always greater than maximum landing weight. Thus this stop is the most effort those friction brakes must endure.
Typically after a rejected takeoff the aircraft must be serviced as the carbon pads are white hot and sometimes catch fire it is normal for a rejected takeoff to be meet with fire suppression trucks and foam sprayed on the main gear to keep them from bursting into flame.
Every jet on dry ttarmac can land and stop using just it’s friction brakes by design for the two engine out dead stick landing every pilot dreads with only the RAT if you are lucky and your plane has one spinning, or the APU which can fail to light off or if you run to zero fuel then it’s RAT or die.
Wet tarmac is variable due to friction coefficients, landing weight, tire pressure vs tread depth vs water depth it’s not possible to compute it all you land and put the full weight in the gear and let the antiskid keep you straight as you use plenty if reverse thrust to slow to a speed where your friction brakes can bring you to taxi speeds for the turn off...This crew failed in that task they cut the thrust reverse too soon and didn’t have the traction coefficient to use the friction brakes from the speed they cut the thrust reverse off from.
Two words
Pilot error
Simple as that.
makes sense when you factor in the worst case they have to prepare for.
which begs the question, depending on ~2/3s of the braking coming from reversing the engines, you’re still leaning heavy on traditional brakes. what if you’re on ice and all but the minimal engines are out? those wheels won’t want to stop on ice using simple brakes.