a*s strike
this article was release to its pilots over the weekend.
Dear ladies and gentlemen
Recently one of our aircraft (9M A**) had experienced a tail strike upon
landing at KLIA. Generally these are the details of the flight.
Both Captain and First Officer have less than 600 hours on type but are well
experienced with the company operations, coming from their B737 background.
They were both performing 4 sectors in the afternoon comprising of an
international and domestic destination. On the last landing at KUL, the
weather was fine and the PIC was the PF. With consideration of the weather
and fuel conservation, he elected to do a CONF 3 landing since it was an
approach for Rwy 14L with the option of exiting the runway via intersection
A10 available. A normal landing was conducted with that configuration and no
abnormalities were experienced until touchdown. During the landing roll, an
inadvertent pitch up was experienced which lead to a tail strike. The
aircraft is now grounded and will definitely be out of service for at least
2 weeks. An investigation is ongoing and the findings and recommendations
will be released for everyone's benefit upon completion.
As a reminder and further education for every one of us, attached is a
presentation from Airbus on avoiding such an incident. We now have two
problems arising from landings at KUL - HARD LANDING and TAILSTRIKE which as
a result is shining the wrong spotlight on us as PILOTS. Please take note of
both matters and ensure that each landing is a safe landing without any
incident.