Narrative:

Anti skid right fail alert illuminated when landing gear was lowered. Accomplished go around to run QRH abnormal procedure checklist. Reset and retested anti skid per QRH. Test still failed. [I] landed with flaps 50. We were fairly light and had a 15 KT headwind. Light brakes were used to exit the runway. After landing; I had the airport fire trucks do a thermal scan of our brakes; to make sure that we did not have any hot; binding brakes. They said all brakes were well within normal limits. We taxied to our parking spot with no further problems. Several hours after the flight; I reviewed the checklist in an effort to 'debrief' the incident. Upon this review; I realized that I had misread one of the steps of the checklist procedure. The checklist said to turn the 'auto brakes off; if installed.' I mistakenly read it as 'anti skid off' and landed with the anti skid off. After the go around; we were fairly close to our 'emergency fuel.' approach kept us in a tight pattern and I was finishing the checklist while on a 10 mile base. We were rushed; but with our fuel situation I did not feel that it was wise to delay much longer. I quickly went through the checklist again as the layout of the checklist is somewhat confusing. There are different steps for carbon brakes than for steel brakes; which we had that day. With the fuel situation in my mind; I rushed and misread the checklist. I think that the checklist is poorly written and confusing. A better layout; better type and font layout might help [also] having more fuel remaining to deal with problems that occur just before landing would help also.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: MD-10 Captain reported anti skid problem on approach. Under time pressure because of low fuel; the Captain misread the procedure and turned off the anti skid instead of the auto brakes.

Narrative: Anti skid right fail alert illuminated when landing gear was lowered. Accomplished go around to run QRH abnormal procedure checklist. Reset and retested anti skid per QRH. Test still failed. [I] landed with flaps 50. We were fairly light and had a 15 KT headwind. Light brakes were used to exit the runway. After landing; I had the airport fire trucks do a thermal scan of our brakes; to make sure that we did not have any hot; binding brakes. They said all brakes were well within normal limits. We taxied to our parking spot with no further problems. Several hours after the flight; I reviewed the checklist in an effort to 'debrief' the incident. Upon this review; I realized that I had misread one of the steps of the checklist procedure. The checklist said to turn the 'auto brakes off; if installed.' I mistakenly read it as 'anti skid off' and landed with the anti skid off. After the go around; we were fairly close to our 'emergency fuel.' Approach kept us in a tight pattern and I was finishing the checklist while on a 10 mile base. We were rushed; but with our fuel situation I did not feel that it was wise to delay much longer. I quickly went through the checklist again as the layout of the checklist is somewhat confusing. There are different steps for carbon brakes than for steel brakes; which we had that day. With the fuel situation in my mind; I rushed and misread the checklist. I think that the checklist is poorly written and confusing. A better layout; better type and font layout might help [also] having more fuel remaining to deal with problems that occur just before landing would help also.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 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.