flown it:
you make some excellent points. but there is one more point to be made...if they were excellent "stick and rudder" guys, they might have salvaged it...note:
"high on glideslope" call
no call outs of " spoilers deployed, reversers ready, no autobrakes, no calls of airspeed while decelerating (80 knots/60 knots)...
while southwest may have other callouts, I think something similiar to the above might be about right.
and TUNNEL vision...why didn't f/o scream, GET INTO REVERSE or something and not wait some 18 seconds. My gosh, that's the introduction and first strain of the "washington post march" in time!
and shame on southwest for putting a memo out about auto brakes and not training in the sim!
don't even get me started about tailwind landings at midway!
oh well
j