- Tower reported wind with the landing clearance directly from the tail, 9 kts, advisory call later with 10 kt tailwind, duly noted as a maximum by the pilots on the CVR.
- Approx. 750 RA crew verbalizes 20 knots tailwind from the FMC, but then mere 4 seconds later the tower advises 270/11.
- (*)
- No further wind observations recorded on the tape.
- GS faster than IAS at touchdown by 23 knots, ouch.
- Touchdown at Vref 126, around 2500 ft beyond the threshold.
- Deceleration diminished to half the previously recorded rate for the last 5 seconds before entering the EMAS.
(*) in detail here what followed:
Originally Posted by CVR
0901:36.2 BUR wind two seven zero at one one.
0901:41.3 HOT-2 #.
0901:43.2 HOT-2 er there's five hundred.
0901:44.8 HOT-1 roger.
0901:48.9 HOT-1 we need some kind of lights. I got some lights.
0901:51.6 HOT-2 alright we got eleven knots. you want to call it good?
0901:54.5 HOT-1 yeah.
This, even from a cushy chair, is still somewhat an eye-watering read. If CRM classes on confirmation bias had an exercise for the students to write a script from a hypothetical accident, this would be exactly it. Check the timings, one can almost hear the skipper's brain working the human error. Then the sentence in brown just sealed it airtight, for the grace of God.