Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP); Flight Crew Multiengine
Human-Machine Interface
Deviation - Altitude Undershoot; Deviation - Speed All Types; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Inflight Event / Encounter Unstabilized Approach
Flight Crew Landed As Precaution
Human Factors
Flight on final to Runway 28C. On profile until last 50 ft. The First Officer was flying. At 50 ft. aircraft began to drift up. Captain called dot high on glide slope. At 30 ft. FO (First Officer) began to flare and aircraft started to float. The First Officer left the power in a little too long which caused the aircraft to continue to float. The aircraft was at 10 ft. and at idle power; and the Captain determined that it was safer to land long on a 13;000 ft. runway than to go around from 10 ft. at idle power. Aircraft landed without incident.The event occurred because the Pilot Flying did not recognize the aircraft drifting up in the flare and did not take proper corrective action. The Captain was giving instruction on how to remedy the situation; but the FO was just too far behind the situation to fix the problem.Long landings are insidious by nature. In [XX] years on the Airbus I have never seen an aircraft float like that. The obvious answer having sat and thought about it would be to go around; but when you are flying in real time it's not that clear. We knew we had 13;000 ft. of runway to use.
A-321 Captain reported he allowed the First Officer to land long from an unstable approach.