Where the plane stopped is really dependent on which arrester cable the hook caught since the first wire is about 200 feet from the rear of the flight deck with the last being about 350 feet. When you add another 200-300 feet for run out of the cable, that takes the plane up to within 100 feet of the forward end of the angled deck if it caught the "4" wire. Since an F-18 has a landing speed of 134 knots (154MPH), that means that Sidewinder was doing that speed when it left the rail. The missile would have impacted the deck probably 75-100 feet ahead of the plane and bounced its way down the flight deck until it went over the forward end. If you look closely at the first picture, you can see the forward fins are in contact with the deck while, in the second picture, the rear fins are dragging on the deck with the forward ones just above it.