B737-900
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Flight Crew Total 7338; Flight Crew Type 1470
Situational Awareness
Ground Event / Encounter Ground Strike - Aircraft
Aircraft Aircraft Damaged; General Maintenance Action
Aircraft; Human Factors
Uneventful approach and landing. After touchdown; spoilers deployed; aircraft settled onto the runway. As I was manipulating the throttles to engage reverse thrust; the pitch attitude started to increase. I countered the increase with forward pressure on the control column; unfortunately the counter action was not enough; and the tail skid contacted the runway. Pitch attitude at touchdown was approximately 6.6 degrees.
While landing the tail of [our] 737-900ER scraped the tail. The approach and landing where normal and stable. After touchdown the nose rose and the tail lightly scraped the runway.
B737-900ER flight crew reported experiencing a tail strike on landing after a normal; stable approach.