CABIN ATTENDANT RPTS ALL CABIN CREW WERE STILL STANDING AT TOUCHDOWN WHEN THE FLT CREW ANNOUNCEMENT TO PREPARE FOR LNDG WAS LATE. ADVISES FO STATED HE WAS PLAYING THE GUITAR AND FORGOT UNTIL THE LAST MIN.

Date: 2006-01 · Aircraft: B737-300

Anomalies: deviation-discrepancy-procedural-published-material-policy|inflight-event-encounter-weather-turbulence

Synopsis

CABIN ATTENDANT RPTS ALL CABIN CREW WERE STILL STANDING AT TOUCHDOWN WHEN THE FLT CREW ANNOUNCEMENT TO PREPARE FOR LNDG WAS LATE. ADVISES FO STATED HE WAS PLAYING THE GUITAR AND FORGOT UNTIL THE LAST MIN.

Narrative

DURING DSCNT INTO PIT; THE PREPARE FOR LNDG ANNOUNCEMENT WAS GIVEN BY THE FO. I WAS PURSER AND MADE MY ANNOUNCEMENT TO THE PAX. I THEN PROCEEDED TO CHK SEATBELTS; ETC. I MADE IT THROUGH THE ENTIRE CABIN TO THE BACK GALLEY TO RECEIVE THE LIQUOR PAPERS AND WE LANDED AT THE SAME TIME AS I GOT THERE WHICH MUST HAVE BEEN ABOUT 30 SECONDS AFTER THE PREPARE ANNOUNCEMENT WAS MADE BY THE FO. ALL 3 FLT ATTENDANTS WERE STANDING IN THE BACK. WE WERE ALL SHOCKED BY THE QUICK LNDG. THE WX WAS EXTREMELY BAD -- LIGHTNING; SNOW; THUNDER AND RAIN. WE HD ALL BEEN SEATED FOR SOME TIME BEFORE LNDG DUE TO THE COCKPIT'S INSTRUCTIONS. NONE OF US HEARD THE GEAR COME DOWN OR HAD ANY IDEA THAT WE WOULD BE LNDG SO SUDDENLY. OUR SAFETY WAS JEOPARDIZED AS WELL AS THE PAX BECAUSE NONE OF US WERE AT OUR JUMPSEATS IF THERE HAD BEEN AN EMER EVAC. I WENT BACK TO MY JUMPSEAT AND WAS SEATED FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE TAXI. ALL MEMBERS OF THE FLT CREW WERE STAYING TOGETHER SO WE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO ASK ABOUT THE LATE ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE FO. HE SAID HE WAS PUTTING HIS GUITAR AWAY AND FORGOT TO GIVE THE ANNOUNCEMENT UNTIL TOO LATE.

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