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Old 20th Oct 2023, 20:36
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suninmyeyes
 
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It looks like the wind was 070/17 gusting 30 and wet. They landed on Runway 14.

I remember when the Airtours Tristar went off the end of runway 14 in May 1985. I flew into LBA the following day in a Fokker F27 and had to land on the cross runway 28 which I see no longer exists. We had to do a water methanol takeoff to get airborne on 28.

The following is just a possibility. The Tui landed with autobrake selected. The far end was coming up a little faster than they would have liked and the handling pilot took out the autobrake to apply max manual braking. He would have needed quite a lot of right rudder to avoid weathercocking into wind. It is hard to apply full braking evenly when you have a boot full of rudder applied, especially on the pedal furthest away from you.

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