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AIUI, they should never have gotten that far. They should have gone around at 1000 feet.

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• JumpCrisscross 6d ago
  > They should have gone around at 1000 feet They hit the ground at 158 knots. 767-300ER rotates at 130 to 160 knots. Given it had burned through its fuel, at the moment they touched down they could have immediately taken back off and gone around. Given the pilots braked at 146 kts, released at 120 kts to throttle up for G-A, then four seconds later ditched the G-A and re-applied brakes, this sounds like they got stuck between going around and committing to the landing and never quite did either.
  • loeg 6d ago
    They were in a bad situation long before they touched the ground and should have gone around even earlier.
    • JumpCrisscross 6d ago
      Totally agree. I'm pointing out that they had multiple moments after their mistakes to correct course, possibly down to the point when one of the pilots annunciates G-A (00:15, which is–agreed–late for that to come up for the first time).
  • Mawr 5d ago
    > Given the pilots braked at 146 kts, released at 120 kts to throttle up for G-A, then four seconds later ditched the G-A and re-applied brakes, this sounds like they got stuck between going around and committing to the landing and never quite did either. Ah, literally the worst thing you can ever do, the in-between. Either go or stop, never do the indecisive middle route. If in doubt, default to stopping, though in this case of course the default is to go-around. Although... it's probably going to end up the case, as is usual, that were they truly committed to landing and started braking hard right away, they would have ended up fine enough. Indecisiveness kills.