43 hours in an aircraft type that is mostly used for transoceanic flight is what, 5 flights? this might have been his first attempted landing as pilot in command in the 777, and i’ve read a great deal suggesting that the 777 behaves much differently than any of the other types he had logged so many hours in. add this to the fact that, as mentioned in the previous thread, the ILS was inoperative at SFO, and you’ve got a relative noob attempting to do something they might not have done before with less information than they were trained to work with.
with the information provided by the flight data recorder, somehow, someone forgot to throttle up the engines at the end of the descent. two someones forgot to throttle up at the end of the descent. whether this was due to a mistake in the settings of the automation or just fixation on the runway, it comes down to pilot error.
i’m the first to defend the pilots, because it’s usually an airline or an aircraft manufacturer jumping through all kinds of logical hoops to place the blame on them, but it really seems like this is a case of pilot error. sad.
