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B737-900 captain reported failing to arrest the pitching up of the nose on landing resulting in a tail strike.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1662248 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201907 |
| Local Time Of Day | 1201-1800 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | ZZZ.Airport |
| State Reference | US |
| Environment | |
| Flight Conditions | VMC |
| Light | Daylight |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | B737-900 |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 121 |
| Flight Phase | Landing |
| Flight Plan | IFR |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Captain Pilot Flying |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) Flight Crew Multiengine |
| Experience | Flight Crew Last 90 Days 138 |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Ground Event / Encounter Ground Strike - Aircraft |
Narrative:
Approach and landing seemed uneventful to me but after mains compressed on landing the nose pitched up and I failed to aggressively arrest this nose up resulting in a 'light scraping' of the tail skid. A scraping sound was heard by some passengers and the skid was inspected by my first officer (first officer); as I stayed in cockpit to call maintenance to inspect. I wrote it up and broke the [maintenance release] then met the maintenance personnel at the tail to inspect. Inspection revealed the tail skid shoe was scraped but the indicator was in the green and had not compressed. Maintenance indicated that this was no damage and released the aircraft safe for flight. Pitch report at the gate indicated a pitch on landing of 7.7 deg with limit of 8.3 deg.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: B737-900 Captain reported failing to arrest the pitching up of the nose on landing resulting in a tail strike.
Narrative: Approach and landing seemed uneventful to me but after mains compressed on landing the nose pitched up and I failed to aggressively arrest this nose up resulting in a 'light scraping' of the tail skid. A scraping sound was heard by some passengers and the skid was inspected by my FO (First Officer); as I stayed in cockpit to call Maintenance to inspect. I wrote it up and broke the [Maintenance Release] then met the maintenance personnel at the tail to inspect. Inspection revealed the tail skid shoe was scraped but the indicator was in the green and had not compressed. Maintenance indicated that this was no damage and released the aircraft safe for flight. Pitch report at the gate indicated a pitch on landing of 7.7 deg with limit of 8.3 deg.
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.