Originally Posted by
gearup1006
Yes poor runway choice, from what I understand the landing distance was over 6000 and the 6003 is from the start of the runway not the 1000 foot markers, so in reality they had 5000 feet. Wet probably standing water from a thunderstorm passing
Originally Posted by
Brickhut
”Mr. Boeing” also said the MAX was a safe airplane. He’s a shifty SOB, I don’t know if I’d take him at his word.
Landing distance at 121 ops is calculated touching down 1500' past the threshold to account for the 50' obstacle, and also includes the FAA factored distance percentage from AC91-79A which on a wet runway makes the landing distance close to 200% of what is actually needed. So landing on the 6,000 foot runway was probably doable, but like others have said, still not a great idea.