Every jet pilot knows that a stabilised approach produces good safe landings and vice versa. Special attention is required in darkness.
Auto brake is activated, with as much reverse thrust as required.
A wake up call, indeed. Ronald Bourke, Retired jet aircraft training captain, Blakehurst, April 26. The current air safety crisis, now compounded by the release of the report on the Qantas accident at Bangkok, has created a lot of confusion with many voices competing to be heard. The facts speak otherwise. I venture to say that our air safety body has never recovered from that experience.