First,
Asiana now Southwest:
From: Jerry Elder
Date: 07/27/13 11:04:37
To: Jerry Elder
Bcc: mark sztanyo
Subject: SW Laguardia
Folks, The bottom commentary is from a pilot who
witnessed the LGA incident.
The top commentary is from a friend of mine who was
commenting on the 1st brief.
Amazing world we live in.
Jerry
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Amazing !
I thought all incidents/ accidents/ close calls/ poor
airmanship/ pilot with lack of balls/ pilots who don't fly like us/ and
everything else I can't think of right now is always caused by "trying to
use AutoFlight too much" without the proper training.
Historically, WN pilots are not known to be over reliant on
automation, since the airline stayed Steam Gauge for years past its prime.
I just assumed since the "Culture of SWA" has
always been fast taxi, land in the first 100' with Navy 3 point landings with
Max breaking to make taxiway A to get to the Gate under One Minute, it would be
a Cultural issue here.
Nope. I can tell since NTSB Ms Deborah has been silent this
week, and no twice a day fact briefings, Culture or Pilot error is not
involved. I stand corrected.
Will be interesting to see what the
"Investigation" finds, when given time to find. As it should
be.
Sent: Friday, July 26, 2013 7:57:09 PM
Subject: Fwd: SW Laguardia
This account posted on a US Air web board...
"Here is what I saw. We were on taxiway B short of CY abeam the AA hanger. We were around 2000 ft from the runway end and had a complete view of the first 2000 ft of the runway. WN seemed high crossing the threshold and was around 20-30 ft above the 1000ft marker when they flared and ballooned even higher. At this point the three of us thought he was going around until he pushed the nose over. I will admit it was such a hard pushover that even
before he hit the ground at the 1500 ft marker, nose gear first (barley before the underside of the AC nose hit I yelled Holy S**t. I believe after the pushover someone tried to get the nose back up but it was a lost cause. The fact the AC stayed in one piece is amazing. The nose gear looked like it was on a shock disappearing back into the wheel well. The left engine hit first and the AC started sliding left. It was pure luck that no one was hurt, as the area it came to a stop in had a few minutes earlier been full of AC taxiing.".
"Here is what I saw. We were on taxiway B short of CY abeam the AA hanger. We were around 2000 ft from the runway end and had a complete view of the first 2000 ft of the runway. WN seemed high crossing the threshold and was around 20-30 ft above the 1000ft marker when they flared and ballooned even higher. At this point the three of us thought he was going around until he pushed the nose over. I will admit it was such a hard pushover that even
before he hit the ground at the 1500 ft marker, nose gear first (barley before the underside of the AC nose hit I yelled Holy S**t. I believe after the pushover someone tried to get the nose back up but it was a lost cause. The fact the AC stayed in one piece is amazing. The nose gear looked like it was on a shock disappearing back into the wheel well. The left engine hit first and the AC started sliding left. It was pure luck that no one was hurt, as the area it came to a stop in had a few minutes earlier been full of AC taxiing.".
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