[Who dat?]

The pilots calculated how much runway they needed on a laptop with "wet-poor" conditions, and figured that assuming the thrust reversers deployed at touchdown, they would have **30 feet** to spare at the other end of the runway, and they decided to land anyway?

I guess. Just slow down and turn off at the end.

Anyway, it has been a long time since the commercial pilots in my family have been alive but I recall them talking about MDW (and others) and commenting that the runways were shorter than other airports. That’s how I recall it.

Don’t recall the specifics and I’m no pilot so it wouldn’t mean a lot to me anyway.

[eraser2005]

Midway airport is 1 mile wide, 1 mile long.... the runways are on the diagonals and the longest one (the one they landed on) is just 6522 feet.