I may be wrong....
Danny wrote:
"Whilst I have no experience of the B777, it certainly looks as though this a/c landed at very low speed and probably at stall speed. This, possibly due to the pilots trying to extend their glide to at least put it down within the perimeter of the airport."
I may well be wrong and please feel free to correct me, but how does landing at very low speed or at the stall speed increase the glide? I thought the maximum glide distance would be achieved at best glide speed which is presumably quite a lot greater than the stall speed on a 777? And therefore that any speed either greater or lesser would only have the effect of reducing the glide distance. I don't dispute that the crew would have wanted to slow the aircraft as much as possible just prior to touching down - but I would have thought that slowing to stall speed in order to try and make the perimeter would be an extraordinarily bad idea....
Please feel free to tell me I'm talking rubbish!