Narrative:

We had been operating in the green for the last six legs. During the descent I started reviewing taxi options for landing on 9R and 10 and on arrival I was trying to chair fly all taxi options. We had and reported airport and proceeding traffic in sight on downwind. Once getting vectored on base then to final; twice we were finally cleared for the visual. Close proximity aircraft was at the same altitude on parallel runway 9R and we hit wake turbulence just as we were cleared for visual. Tower was issuing taxi instructions to company aircraft and another carrier in front of us while we were continuing down the glideslope. We were stable and made the 1000 call and at 500 we realized flaps were not set from 15 to 30 before 1000 ft above tdze (touchdown zone end) requirement. Distractions by ATC; anticipation of complex taxi plan; late clearance for visual approach; and back-end of the am schedule after substandard sleeping conditions all contributed to the missing configuration. We debriefed the event and identified our mistakes. We will be alert at these critical phases in the future. Suggest to other crews to not worry about ground operations while in critical phases of flight. Study complex airfield diagram before current leg. Realize ATC distractions and resist attention diversion towards them. Keep situational awareness on profiles and configurations. After debriefing everything; a go-around should have been accomplished.

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Title: B737 First Officer reported continuing an unstabilized approach contrary to SOP. Fatigue and distractions were cited as contributing.

Narrative: We had been operating in the green for the last six legs. During the descent I started reviewing taxi options for landing on 9R and 10 and on arrival I was trying to chair fly all taxi options. We had and reported airport and proceeding traffic in sight on downwind. Once getting vectored on base then to final; twice we were finally cleared for the visual. Close proximity aircraft was at the same altitude on parallel Runway 9R and we hit wake turbulence just as we were cleared for visual. Tower was issuing taxi instructions to Company aircraft and another carrier in front of us while we were continuing down the glideslope. We were stable and made the 1000 call and at 500 we realized flaps were not set from 15 to 30 before 1000 ft above TDZE (Touchdown Zone End) requirement. Distractions by ATC; anticipation of complex taxi plan; late clearance for visual approach; and back-end of the AM schedule after substandard sleeping conditions all contributed to the missing configuration. We debriefed the event and identified our mistakes. We will be alert at these critical phases in the future. Suggest to other crews to not worry about Ground Operations while in critical phases of flight. Study complex airfield diagram before current leg. Realize ATC distractions and resist attention diversion towards them. Keep situational awareness on profiles and configurations. After debriefing everything; a go-around should have been accomplished.

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.