Originally Posted by
misd-agin
A 5 kt speed loss is being blamed for a hard landing?? Vicious winds, we should be damaging airplanes every day across the world.
No. I said that 5kt below bug CAN cause problems in an A330. And, yes, a colleague in a previous airline did a very hard landing in an A330 as a result of exactly this situation. After which our company recommended phase advance (since removed by Airbus).
It seems to be an A330 problem when there is no significant wind, so no G/S mini addition, but a hot day with thermals on finals. Not to me - I have hammered-in the occasional A321 due to stupidity on my part, but not an A330 (yet).
