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Old 31st Dec 2012, 00:10
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olasek
 
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the plane is going to touch down around 1700' into the runway, or slightly further down if the flare has errors. While it may not be pretty, or optimal, it is not out of the bounds of a reasonable approach.
It all depends what speed it had when this "long" touch down occurred. Because as the video on YT shows (same aircraft type, same airline) the aircraft carries so much extra speed that it bounces, it floats, doesn't want to "stick" to the pavement so you have the chain affect of speed brakes, brakes and everything else not engaging because of (what effectively was) a poorly executed approach. Makes you wonder if pilots even bothered to compute Vref. Long touchdown by itself may not be out-of-bounds yet but combined with excess energy and it may very well put you outside of the limits.

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