Accident report Air France A330 flight 358 YYZ ( 2005 ) landing during thunderstorm

[Just a civilian pilot]

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[Just a civilian pilot]

I'm impressed with the thoroughness of the report.

Would it be fair to say that in this case the auto throttles contributed to the accident?

I think it's a major oversight for an airline to not require landing distance calculations when their is lowered braking effectiveness. How could this happen?

The human factor also contributed to this accident. Landing into a known thunderstorm and not going around when the approach and landing are clearly not going well. At what point in the approach/landing can you no longer go around?

Canadian NTSB are very competent and experienced.

 

[JavierH19]

From the report, "aircraft touched down about 3800 feet down the runway, reverse thrust was selected about 12.8 seconds after landing, and full reverse was selected 16.4 seconds after touchdown."

That is pilot error. Landed long. Slow to select reverse. Hard to stop when you land with almost half of the runway behind you.

As far as airfrance goes this is pretty good by their standards. Heck even spirit is more competent.