Captain Steve had an excellent analysis the other day.
Came in too hot, too fast. Should have got the plane down on the first 1/3 of the runway.
Speed was too high, don’t know why. They may have been getting a tail wind from a micro burst in those dark clouds somewhere behind them.
It was the shortest runway available, but still adequate.
Pilot dove for the deck, flared the plane too high, floated down the runway, losing thousands of feet of available.
The touchdown wasnose gear first. Very bad technique. He was lucky that the plane didn’t start bouncing.
Both main mounts need to be on the runway for the spoilers to deploy to slow the plane down and make the brakes work better, but they went several thousand more feet down the runway with one of the main mounts still dangling in the air, so the spoilers never deployed.
As Captain Steve put it, a lot of holes in that Swiss cheese had to lineup for that accident to occur, and they all lined up.
Captain Steve had an excellent analysis the other day.
Came in too hot, too fast. Should have got the plane down on the first 1/3 of the runway.
Speed was too high, don’t know why. They may have been getting a tail wind from a micro burst in those dark clouds somewhere behind them.
It was the shortest runway available, but still adequate.
Pilot dove for the deck, flared the plane too high, floated down the runway, losing thousands of feet of available.
The touchdown wasnose gear first. Very bad technique. He was lucky that the plane didn’t start bouncing.
Both main mounts need to be on the runway for the spoilers to deploy to slow the plane down and make the brakes work better, but they went several thousand more feet down the runway with one of the main mounts still dangling in the air, so the spoilers never deployed.
As Captain Steve put it, a lot of holes in that Swiss cheese had to lineup for that accident to occur, and they all lined up.
As we used to say in the Air Force, “It’s much better to die than look bad”...