PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - American Airlines jet goes off runway in Jackson Hole, Wyoming
Old 14th Jan 2011, 05:49
  #268 (permalink)  
SKS777FLYER
 
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Double Oak, Texas
Age: 71
Posts: 180
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
The south end of JAC is notoriously slippery at times during winter months. The passenger shot video out the left side of the AC never caught sight of a spoiler during the landing roll. On AA's RB211 engined fleet, if all systems are functioning as designed, the reverser sleeve will not translate aft in flight which would allow blocker doors to swivel into position to block fan air. Throttles must be at idle and separate levers mounted low on the front of the throttles must be grasped and raised by a pilot. The copilot was said by the NTSB to have been the PF. He would have been wrestling with the reverse levers. The captain would/should have a ready hand to deploy the ground spoilers if they not auto-deploy simultaneously with touchdown.
SKS777FLYER is offline