Originally Posted by Globaliser
Looks like he wasn't many feet away from doing some nasty damage to his gear and tyres.
I thought that touching down before the displaced threshold was a no-no, whatever the reason? Something to do with pavement loadings not always being up to the same level as on the runway proper.
Looking at the phot closely, and remembering the layout, I think he's still 50 feet or so in the air and not yet over land. The compressed point-of-view of the lens makes it appear that the wheels are about to touch down on the very right edge of the runway. In fact, the wheels and right of the runway are just in a line when the picture was shot.
I suspect he will pass over the fence just to the right of the small group of spectators on the left.
Another famous example - these planes aren't actually crashing -
http://www.jetphotos.net/images/l/LH....jpg.60983.jpg - the United flight is several hundred feet ahead of the other jet - they're just inline with the camera.