Perhaps is in my mind but I think that in real life the 80%
of stoping of any jet after touchdown it's the airbrake and not  the wheel brakes as it seems to be in FS9 I don't feel in the sim that even retroimpulse of turbine engines doen't do anything,exept by the sound,i think that the stoping of the aircraft should be after landing  be more realistic  at least in the FS9's default jets ,please correct me if i'm wrong

Craig is dead on.
the spoilers are designed to kill the lift at touchdown you (hopefully) wont bounce.
Yes it increased the drag on the runway aswell but the wheel brakes are the ones that effectively slows the aircraft down, with assistance of the reverse thrust.

Yeah those Air disaster docs are aired here in Sweden aswell. 
I guess you're refering to the AA flight into Little Rock?
They did forget to ARM the spoilers that's why they aquaplaned (spelling?), so they were bascily surfing on the wet runway. Good brakes will do you squat here, what you need is something that pushes the aircraft DOWN and kills the lift, the spoilers do just that

Basically what nexus stated.
However the exact problem here was bad timing. The pilots were told just as they were landing to go around due a to a shift in winds making it an illeagal, at that same time a thunderstorm passed overhead, the crew failed to take note of this and the plane aquaplaned off the side of the runway. In case such as this yes the spoilers would have been a very useful inclusion.
It was american airlines 1420 incase you want to read more into it. I am too busy to read up on the details as i leave for the states tuesday and leave for the airport tomorow

that accident should've never had happened.
The pilot even said something like "I hate flying in the blind like this". Now does that sound like a bloke you'd want as a pilot?
The pilot saw nothing outthere because of the thunderstorms, rain and low visibility conditions

They knew about the storms, they knew about them before they departed
They took a chance in trying to get to Little Rock before the bad weather, but failed...In the attempt of trying to land, finding the runway and keeping the airplane on the glideslope, the crew forgot to arm the spoilers

The aircraft was equipped with a weather radar, more advanced than the radars at little rock. The MD80 was capable of displaying weather in color, while Little rock radar was not. They were told to switch runway and during the downwind leg the radar which is mounted in the nose can't show weather behind you so the crew lost track of it, when they turned to base and final, the thunderstorms (there were 2 different storms that merged into one big) was all over them.

That's how they said on the documentary, and it reflects the NTSB's reasons why the aircraft crashed.

Well ,while we are talking about what is most responsible for stopping an airliner, I thought this piece of information might be appropriate...

Did you know, that thrust reversers are not factored in to an airliner's minimum landing distance?  They are actually an added bonus and a plane must land on a runway long enough for them to stop if they were not using the reversers.  I recently learned that, and well, I found it surpising.

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They have not in included the reversers because when performing an engine out landing you can't even deploy the reversers at all, which would leave the crew with incorrect performance tables