Originally Posted by
Reluctant Bus Driver
On the A319 the land app requires 6400 ft of runway with 10 knots tailwind and wet runway with 129000 lbs
landing weight. The 737-800 is a fast lander. I doubt very very much that their landing data showed a legal landing unless they were extremely light.Your hearing always improves at the hearing! A divert would have been quite rational me thinks. Live to fight another day..
This was a -700, and with 58.5 tons (he was probably lighter), landing is OK with 10 kts tailwind, FL30 on a wet 2000 m runway. Better margins with FL40.
The -700 is a lot easier to handle and stops much faster that the -800.
He was legal.