Originally Posted by
DaveReidUK
I suspect Chuuk doesn't see many 737 tailwind landings on its 6000', often wet runway with a watery overrun.
PTKK wind was SW/15Kts from 0800-1200 from windy.com model. It ain't perfect, but it is pretty good normally as a model.
If everyone got out and just had a swim, then that was fortuitous. The question will be if the airline can recover from their calamitous financial position, and their curious industrial relations stance.
When the OEM's (brand B...) dropped reference ground speed from the repertoire of wind shear protection method, the discipline of knowing a ballpark minimum ground speed target also gave an expected sink rate on descent as a logical aside. That would give a large hint to someone flying an approach with a tailwind or conditions that are not as considered before the approach. Brand A achieves the same with GSmini, however the cognitive process is subsumed by the automatics rather than being a part of the scan of performance instruments.
Clean living obviously paid off for the pax on this one.
The video is post #12 shows the remains of the landing craft that is south of the RWY04 threshold. That puts the plane in the H2O southwest of the runway. If it was an undershoot into the brine, then it was on RWY04, alternatively a long landing and off piste off RWY22.