On Sun, 7 Jul 2013 20:52:13 -0700, Morgoth Bauglir wrote:

So now they have to spend millions of dollars, integrate data from
dozens of witnesses and video footage taken a mile away, data recorders,
ground radar, take months doing that to figure out exactly what happened
- when a friggen $200 camera could have recorded the botched landing in
hi-def glory.

Why do you think a camera pointed at the runway from some random
vantage point would reveal the secret answer?

There's no question that the plane came in too low, the tail clipped
the seawall, and things went downhill (so to speak) after that. The
question is why.

http://www.diecastaircraftforum.com/...-thinking.html

Not the first time a plane has landed short at SFO, a Japan Airline
did so in 1968(?), landed in the water, all the passengers wwere
safely removed, the pilot later committed Hari-Kari.

Wikipedia has "On November 22, 1968, Shiga, Japan Airlines Flight 2
operated by a McDonnell Douglas DC-8 accidentally landed in San Francisco
Bay approx. 2.5 mi (4.0 km) short of San Francisco International Airport.
The aircraft was recovered after being in the water for 55 hours. There
were no injuries to the crew or to any passengers. The probable cause was
"the improper application of the prescribed procedures to execute an
automatic-coupled ILS approach. This deviation from the prescribed
procedures was, in part, due to a lack of familiarization and infrequent
operation of the installed flight director and autopilot system". The
aircraft was repaired by United Airlines at San Francisco International
Airport and returned to JAL in March 1969.[7][8] Pilot Kohhei Asoh said
that he mistakenly believed that he was landing on the runway when in fact
the plane hit the water several hundred yards away.[9