Ethiopian B738 overrun at Entebbe 2019_01_03

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Sonic

I am with You!
As an active 737-800 commander I have to say I am slightly concerned about this aicrafts tendency to end up with more or less dramatic off runway excursions.
The thing is , she is fast on approach, say with a standard F30 landing Vref in the 140s and addition of up to Vref +15 AND a max tail wind of 15 we are often looking at well into 160kts GS over the fence.
If for any reason this is the case and I flare to much, she is more then happy to sit in ground effect and eat runway at a dramatic rate!
I just had a good FO demonstrate this to me on a 3200m runway the other day and I forget, but he did at least use 1000m in the flare.
A good laugh and some mumbling and we quickly debriefed . Lesson learned, class dismissed!
Every day Murphy boards, and every day we tell him to go back to his seat.
Happy Landing
Specially all You 738 chapps and chappesses!
Gone Fishing
Cpt B