Yankee Whiskey:
Conflicting reporting; Bloogs states runway drenched and below's input mentions dry runway. Keep it factual fellows and galls.
It's all in the official report including photographs.
Excerpts rom the report:
Despite the EGPWS warnings and calls from the First Officer to ‘Go Around’, the Captain had persisted with the approach in unstabilised conditions. The final touch down of the aircraft was at about 5200 ft from the beginning of R/W 24, leaving only about 2800 ft to the end of paved surface, to stop the aircraft.
Soon after the touchdown, the Captain had selected Thrust Reverser. But, within a very short time of applying brakes, the Captain had initiated a rather delayed ‘go around’ or an attempted take-off, in contravention to Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) laid down by the manufacturer i.e. Boeing Commercial Airplane Company, USA.
When the aircraft came in contact with Mangalore Area at 05:36 hours IST, the First Officer was given the following weather information from METAR of 05:30 hours:- “Winds - Calm, Visibility - 6km, Cloud - Few 2000 ft, Temperature - 27o, Dew Point - 26, QNH - 1006 hPa” At 06:04:19 hours IST when the aircraft was given landing clearance for R/W 24 by ATC, Mangalore, the winds were reported to be calm.
No significant weather had been either forecasted or reported en-route from Dubai to Mangalore. The visibility at Mangalore was 6 km at the time of accident. As such the prevailing weather conditions did not contribute towards the accident.