Lets put a different slant on an old problem.
Some modern, highly automated aircraft pilots seem to be dropping the airspeed from their scan occasionally with bad results, e.g. Asiana at SFO. In that case they were very slow.
Why couldn't a pilot be so behind the aircraft and not scanning his airspeed that he landed much faster than he appreciated? Maybe he could have stopped the aircraft if he had touched down at his usual 108 knots but as we know in this case, there was no way to stop at his actual 140+ knot approach speed.
Last edited by Machinbird; 19th Aug 2015 at 03:35.
Reason: improve clarity