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Old 21st August 2015 | 17:05
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peekay4
 
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The quoted report talks of a thrust increase just before landing, and I wonder if perhaps the F/O - who sounds inexperienced - did not retard the thrust levers in the flare?
The A/THR applied thrust increase long before the flare (at around 150ft AGL).

The plane was already at least 10 kts over the 141 kts Vapp at the time and the A/THR bug accelerated the plane even further, to 163 kts by the threshold according to the report. Plus there was a +7 kts tail wind.

But lots of other things went wrong on that flight. The plane was never stabilized (Vapp+47 kts at 1,000ft), the crew contradicted each other (even though the Captain was a CRM instructor), both were manipulating the sidesticks after the flare, the thrust levers were retarded late (only after the RETARD annunciator), etc.

The plane ended up touching down 1,600 meters (!) past the runway threshold at 154 kts ground speed.

The crew training was also shockingly poor. The F/O reportedly didn't know what the airline's stabilization criteria was, and couldn't explain the meaning of the characteristic speeds (green dot, F, S).

Similarly the Captain allegedly didn't really know the stabilization criteria, missed approach requirements, proper emergency evac procedures, etc.
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