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Mon, Dec 12, 2011 NTSB Forwards Recommendations On Tailwind Landings To FAA
The NTSB has issued a series of safety recommendations to the FAA in response to an incident in which an American Airlines B737 overran the end of the runway on landing in Kingston, Jamaica in December 2009. The aircraft landed approximately 4,000 feet down the 8,911-foot-long, wet runway with a 14-knot tailwind component and was unable to stop on the remaining runway length (www.aero-news.net) 更多...
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you are either there or not. to land close to halfway down a runway, knowing you have a tailwind, in those conditions, is ludicrous. that man needs further traing in the worst way or just a good dose of common sense. that being said, not sure what the parameters are but it kinda looks like at some point, the tower would have changed the runway if the tw was that strong
Agreed I mean I learned that on my 3rd lesson never to land halfway down a runway with tailwinds (unless your in a 150 then that's a different story) and also with the runway being wet in the first place you would think that the pilots would know better. Unfortunately common sense was clearly not with them and this happened.
Gee, you mean they are supposed to land somewhere near the white lines and there is no arrester cable...who knew?
I remember reading about this when it happened...a go-round would have been a much better bet...
NO LANDING BRIEFING WAS DON......
Per www.b737.org.uk:
Max takeoff / landing tailwind component: 10kts (May be 15kts as customer option)
No tailwind component allowed on contaminated runways.
So AA must have the 15kt option, and a wet runway isn't contaminated? Also isn't an approach that will result in a touchdown outside the touchdown zone immediate grounds for a Go-Around at most if not all airlines? Landing with 14kts on the tail on a wet runway...very likely wasn't the wisest decision those pilots made that day...
Max takeoff / landing tailwind component: 10kts (May be 15kts as customer option)
No tailwind component allowed on contaminated runways.
So AA must have the 15kt option, and a wet runway isn't contaminated? Also isn't an approach that will result in a touchdown outside the touchdown zone immediate grounds for a Go-Around at most if not all airlines? Landing with 14kts on the tail on a wet runway...very likely wasn't the wisest decision those pilots made that day...
