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Report details how Airbus pilots saved the day when all three flight computers failed on landing

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Re: Threshold?

Every aircraft has a landing distance calculated on weight at touchdown. It touched down well within the _normal_ stopping distance for the length of that runway. There's also the possibility of wake turbulence from a previous landing which would make you want to land deeper to avoid it. I once got caught in the wake turbulence of a Boeing 737-200 while landing at Cardiff, Wales; it was not an experience I would ever want to repeat.

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