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Airbubba
Runway 10-28 is a Navy standard 8000 foot runway according to the NOTAMS:
Another slightly different runway length number from the Associated Press report of the NTSB news conference on Sunday.
The 9,000-foot-long runway where the Boeing 737 landed was essentially limited to 7,800 feet since there was a wire barrier set up to recover Navy aircraft in instances they couldn’t land on a carrier during training, said Bruce Landsberg, vice chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board.
Also,
Pilots of a chartered jet that ran into a river at a Florida military base made a last-minute change to the runway where they would make a landing, a federal investigator said Sunday.
The pilots on the Miami Air International plane requested the change to air traffic controllers shortly before landing at Naval Air Station Jacksonville Friday night.
Left T/R inop:
Landsberg said the plane recently had been in maintenance, and logs showed a left-hand thrust reverser that was inoperative.
Thrust reversers are used to divert thrust from the engine, but they typically aren’t used in calculating a plane’s performance, Landsberg said.
https://apnews.com/f42ee70e1b3c4552a22872a6e4c18cd8
NTSB Vice Chairman Landsberg also said that the initial FDR readout indicated a touchdown airspeed of 163 knots with a ground speed of 178 knots. Flaps were 30 and spoilers deployed three seconds after touchdown.
Runway 10 is not grooved. Is this yet another fast tailwind landing on a non-grooved wet runway (with a thrust reverser inop)?
The CVR is in the submerged part of the tail but is thought to be in good shape.
Vice Chairman Landsberg has an ATP MEL SEL with no type ratings and is former president of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (https://www.aopa.org/).
The Sunday NTSB briefing is here:
Last edited by Airbubba; 6th May 2019 at 00:47.