Originally Posted by
Pace
Jammed Stab
Just look at the reality of what you are saying? If it was this experienced pilot landing and we are not 100% that he landed lets go through your scenario,
Accepting that he went high to clear slow traffic and then dived to regain the correct glide that would have resulted in him being far to fast.
He sails over the numbers with a VREF of 135 KTS not 108.
Having landed there many times he knows that the runway is limited but happily holds off bleeding off speed while the aircraft eats up the remaining runway.
With just 400 meters left he touches down and thinks he can stop?
Being of sound mind he would know that if he continued this landing he and his Pax would be dead.
As a sound minded experienced pilot he would be fully aware that his jet could not stop in 400 meters and was signing his own death warrant by attempting to do so.
There has to be more to this than is apparent it is the touch down point which is more relevent and concerning over his mental state than the too fast at the numbers
Had he flown it onto the numbers at 135KTS and as a cowboy gung-ho pilot tried to stop from that speed with the whole runway available OK i buy your theory but to land with 400 meters remaining ? NO that is not the actions of a sane pilot or who knows maybe he thought the hand of Bin Laden would reach from the skies and stop his jet in 400 meters ?
For those insistent that the only reasonable explanation was there had to be an incapacitation at the exact moment that he ended up high and fast(whatever the odds are of that happening), I suppose it explains this A321 overrun incident as well that landed over 5000 feet down the runway in France. Amazing how often this incapacitation thing happens at just the wrong moment. It was two crew as well, for the folks stating how this seems to be a reason to not have single crew ops.
Incident: Hermes A321 at Lyon on Mar 29th 2013, runway excursion