With autospoilers inop there is normally a runway table that gives adjusted landing lengths. On some versions of the 737 there appear to be weight penalties associated with manual speed brakes, I'm thinking this probably depends on the rules in effect when the model was certified on the basis of the long-grandfathered 737 airworthiness certificate.
After the Southwest B-737-700 overrun at MDW in 2005, the FAA has been big on doing a landing performance assessment at the time of arrival.
Hopefully the crew explicitly did this, discussed and briefed the landing conditions and the autospoiler MEL.
And, remembered to raise the speedbrakes on landing.
EMAS is great stuff from the several saves in recent years. Like grooved runways, I'm sure it will eventually catch on overseas.
Last edited by Airbubba; 1st November 2016 at 23:46.