AA Jamaica UPDATE: Jamaican Investigator claims poor landing

[rjacobs]

Not hard to know within a few feet how far an airplane is when it touches down. Time stamps and GPS info on the DFDR/FOQA boxes. Not hard to figure out and get within probably less than 10 feet.

 

[jonjuan]

Not hard to know within a few feet how far an airplane is when it touches down. Time stamps and GPS info on the DFDR/FOQA boxes. Not hard to figure out and get within probably less than 10 feet.

The CVR should add to this as well.

 

[asadonkey]

Not hard to know within a few feet how far an airplane is when it touches down. Time stamps and GPS info on the DFDR/FOQA boxes. Not hard to figure out and get within probably less than 10 feet.

Yeah, well its a well known fact that their DFDR laboratory down there was recently burnt when someone dropped a lit fat joint in the vat of jerk chicken grease. Try again.

 

[Tejas-Jet]

Some type of PFM, gee-whiz, tattle-tale crapola we have on our -700's somehow tells the powers-that-be exactly how far we land down the runway.

Dude...just like the Auto-throttles and V-NAV....those boxes have been in this industry for more than a decade.

 

[SoCentralRain]

72 mph departing the end of the runway. We should hire him!

Gup

That's actually pretty funny.

 

[bubbers44]

Jamaican officials are crooked. They want the heat off the airport so decided they touched down 4100 ft from the approach end of the runway. How convenient.

 

[bubbers44]

It could be true but lets wait and see what the FDR says.

 

[ImbracableCrunk]

It could be true but lets wait and see what the FDR says.

Good idea.

Jamaican officials are crooked. They want the heat off the airport so decided they touched down 4100 ft from the approach end of the runway. How convenient.

Uhhh. What were you saying about waiting?

 

[SBD]

Jamaican officials are crooked. They want the heat off the airport so decided they touched down 4100 ft from the approach end of the runway. How convenient.

That is a dumb statement. What do you know about the Jamaican Aviation Authority or whatever it's called? Let the facts come out. By the way they are working together with the NTSB.

 

[Mike man]

Jamaican officials are crooked. They want the heat off the airport so decided they touched down 4100 ft from the approach end of the runway. How convenient.

Exactly...the controller probably gave them the wrong winds so they wouldn't have to do extra work of vectoring them to the other side of the airport, and the government wants the heat off since the runway is not grooved, but probably have the groover somewhere on the island but forgot where they parked it or never got around to it.