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The graphic in the article is pretty misleading. The video of the accident shows the plane touching down with about a third of the runway left, not two thirds. All discussion of the localizer obstruction is secondary to (a) why did they touch so late and (b) why did they land so urgently.


The figure I've seen is landing 1200m into a 2800m runway, which is about 1/3.


In the longer video, there's clear sparks from the tail strike when the plane is in line with the northeast-most structure of the airport. Lining that up with the camera location shows almost exactly 1200m of runway _remaining_.




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