So much crap tossed about this thread.
Having flown for American for 30 years, and a line CKA for 20 of those, AA pilots are not ignorant of tailwind landing performance degradation as well as wet runway surface conditions..
Unless operational, MEL or special performance limitations reduce further,
ALL American aircraft and pilots are LIMITED to land with a MAX tailwind component of 10 knots. They are also taught (hammered in over years) be fully configured and on speed, stabilized by 1000 feet AGL the landing runway.
They are REQUIRED to land in the landing zone of which means usually the first 3,000 feet of runway, preferably touching down W/O floating at the 1,000 to 1,500 foot point from the approach end of the runway.
In violation of AA procedures and FAR's, the jet was "piloted" to a touchdown some 4,000 feet down the runway, and without rereading the details, I think they might not have been on speed and apparently had greater than 10 knots tailwind.