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Originally Posted by Acey
But many hours in a very accurate simulator, no doubt. I'm sure they will stand by their training policies and insist that he was fully qualified to be landing that airplane. Of course, at any airport besides SFO he just comes up short and suffers gear damage, instead of tumbling across the airfield.
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There are many runways that approach over water or even worst, the 777 only needs 6000 ft of runway to land and SFO is around 12,000 ft. I have personally landed at this airport and besides heavy traffic it's an easy approach.
My take is (from witnesses accounts on board) when he made the turn into the bay he was a too high and then descended fast trying to make up for it, not knowing the aircraft very well he tried to slow it down with nose up(wouldn't be shocked to find out he went past 30 d flaps as well...a no-no) and ran out of room.
The 777 will drop 30% faster than the A320 or 757 which I believe he was experienced in. I will be totally shocked if this isn't 99% pilot error and 1% control error. the 1% is the tower should have recognized the approach error and asked him to go around.