Narrative:

I was the captain/ pilot flying. Air traffic control requested us to maintain at least 170 knots to the marker. After setting managed speed the tower advised us that a boeing 757 would be departing with minimum separation before our landing and cleared us to land. I advised the first officer to be ready for a go around in case the 757 did not continue its take off roll. The 757 was airborne by the time we were at 500 feet so we continued the approach. At 50 feet we encountered a sink which caused a firm bounce on the main gear and subsequent second touchdown. There were no further problems with the rollout and turn off to the taxiway. During taxi in an ECAM message was generated and an action report printed out. I called dispatch and maintenence control to confer with them prior to writing the discrepancies in the logbook. Keeping our speed up to the marker and then having to make sure we kept our spacing on the slow moving departing aircraft contributed to encountering that aircraft's jet blast and turbulance during our flare and was a factor in the bounced landing. In the future I will have to ask ahead of time if a certain distance can be extended for a departing 757.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A320 flight crew reported a hard landing following a B757's takeoff from the same runway. Captain believes jet blast could have been a factor.

Narrative: I was the Captain/ pilot flying. Air Traffic Control requested us to maintain at least 170 knots to the marker. After setting managed speed the Tower advised us that a Boeing 757 would be departing with minimum separation before our landing and cleared us to land. I advised the First Officer to be ready for a go around in case the 757 did not continue its take off roll. The 757 was airborne by the time we were at 500 feet so we continued the approach. At 50 feet we encountered a sink which caused a firm bounce on the main gear and subsequent second touchdown. There were no further problems with the rollout and turn off to the taxiway. During taxi in an ECAM message was generated and an action report printed out. I called dispatch and maintenence control to confer with them prior to writing the discrepancies in the logbook. Keeping our speed up to the marker and then having to make sure we kept our spacing on the slow moving departing aircraft contributed to encountering that aircraft's jet blast and turbulance during our flare and was a factor in the bounced landing. In the future I will have to ask ahead of time if a certain distance can be extended for a departing 757.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.