http://www.aerosocietychannel.com/aerospace-insight/2010/
12/exclusive-qantas-qf32-flight-from-the-cockpit/ Interview with one of the flight crew onboard QF32. On trying to figure out whether they would be able to stop the plane on Singapore’s 4000m runway: “We didn’t have the ability to dump fuel, the fuel dumping system had failed and we were about 50 tonnes over our maximum landing weight. In the Airbus and the A380 we don’t carry performance and landing charts, we have a performance application. Putting in the ten items affecting landing performance on the initial pass, the computation failed. It gave a message saying it was unable to calculate that many failures. So we then looked at them in more detail and rejected ones that we considered minor and things that were affecting landing performance on wet runways. It was a beautiful day in Singapore thankfully and not wet so it obviously wasn’t going to affect our landing performance. After we’d eliminated about three or four items the computer happily made a calculation and it gave us a touchdown speed of about 165kt and showed us about 130m of surplus runway (it’s a 4,000m runway) so basically said we could stop on the runway.” Also: “So it was nearly two hours on the ground with major fuel leaks and engines running.” 10:48