TFS Topography
Gentlemen, please...
We all know that in TFS we have to sometimes overcome the most difficult scenario in which upper winds are westerly, hitting a huge 10,000'+ rock in centre of the island and then creating a flow of air around the rock which causes very strong tailwinds on approach to even <500' and headwinds thereafter.
Whether the pilots breached common sense, standard operating procedures, aircraft limits, etc/etc is one possible factor.
But the topographical layout of the island must never be underestimated as the most causal factor to a very strange phenomena called unstable approaches.
Even the most skilled pilot, using the best avionics the industry can provide in the most modern aircraft of modern times cannot change the environmental occurrences regularly on display at TFS.
Essential is an early acknowledgement of this phenomena, planning for it to happen, and crating a margin against it. Delaying configuration certainly doesn't help in such scenario where a increasing headwind component is felt by the aircraft at low level.
Most of us flying in TFS will remember a day where an increasing speed tendency happened at low level, easily approaching unstable approach criteria for speed +XX kts.
But irrespectively, this phenomena causes a higher than average ground speed due to the tailwind on final approach (I've seen >30 kts @<2000')... Let's not forget the topography in this discussion, TFS is not your average airport.