Hard TAP A321 Landing at Madeira Airport

[hans brinker]

Originally Posted by CVividasku

I had a bit of fun with this video.
The sun was almost exactly perpendicular to the runway at the time of the event. https://gyazo.com/dcbba4289e42f176e3e9e2c870fd62f3
So the airplane shadow shows us a very good indication of the airplane above the runway. And assuming the video is real speed, you can compute a ground speed.
I'm measuring 11s to fly around 930m, so a ground speed of 160-165kt.
The METAR was : METAR LPMA 261100Z 35016G29KT 300V030 9999 SCT015 17/05 Q1018=
It has a runway 05 so it had a bit of headwind component.Around 8-15kt. So that's an indicated airspeed around 170-175kt

Is that a normal speed for a 321 ? The mere sight of the pitch angle during flare tells you it isn't, even without any knowledge of this particular model.

Absolutely.

Originally Posted by bravolima553

They "drove* the plan down as you might often see from TAP in Madeira. In this case in a very extrem manner. They ended up very slow and had no other choice as a touch down. To start a G/A in this situation might end in a balked landing with complications. If G/A, the dicision had to me made much more earlier.

Very slow? Really?