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#1912063
Boxkite wrote:..is a good one. But, in this case, the 'great landing', where you can use the aircraft again, doesn't apply:

"West Atlantic B734 at Exeter on Jan 19th 2021, hard touchdown"

https://www.avherald.com/h?article=4e1e21a4&opt=0

https://samchui.com/2021/01/19/west-atl ... -exeter-2/

Bit more than a 'touchdown'.


Who is the reporter from the news channel with the breaking news.
#1912207
Iceman wrote:Always slightly worrying when someone with so many hours can’t hand fly an ILS to a visual landing without damaging the aircraft beyond repair. It’s just as well that they weren’t carrying passengers.

Iceman 8)


Absolutely staggering that someone with 19,350 flying hours, including 5,637 on the B737, can’t land the aircraft in totally innocuous weather! Maybe there was a reason why she hadn’t achieved a command with those hours?

The commander (PM) had 15,218 flying hours, including 9,000 on the B737.

“At 320 ft RA, the aircraft went below the GS for about 8 seconds and, with a ROD of 1,700 ft/min, a “SINK RATE” GPWS alert was enunciated”! Two further “SINK RATE” alerts occurred below 150 ft RA, with at least one due to a ROD of 1,300 ft/min.

There’s only one response to any of those developments going all the way back to 320’. The response is: “Unstable. Go Around” or just “Go Around”.

I can only presume they had both been tempted, and allowed to continue such approaches in the simulator? That’s a drawback of ‘artificial’ sims and bad habits allowed to develop there by poor training.

A seriously bad evening’s performance from both pilots.
#1912212
And from the report;

During her previous licence proficiency check on 15 July 2020, during a single engine approach, if was noted that the aircraft produced a “SINK RATE” alert on short finals. There were also some deviations on the GA that was subsequently flown. The training captain recorded this element as passed at second attempt and assessed her Flight Path Management as Baseline Minimum Standard.