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“The crew applied maximum manual braking and managed to stop the aircraft 10 meters/33 feet ahead of the runway end (runway length 2600 meters/8530 feet).”

Simon Hradeckyavherald.com ↗

All three flight control computers on an A330 quit within seconds of touchdown. They took the reversers, spoilers and autobrake with them. The cause was a monitoring check that tripped in all three at once. Triple redundancy means nothing when every copy runs the same logic. The pilots and ten meters of runway saved it.