B737-900
Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP); Flight Crew Multiengine
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 138
Situational Awareness
Ground Event / Encounter Ground Strike - Aircraft
Flight Crew Regained Aircraft Control
Aircraft; Human Factors
Approach and landing seemed uneventful to me but after mains compressed on landing the nose pitched up and I failed to aggressively arrest this nose up resulting in a 'light scraping' of the tail skid. A scraping sound was heard by some passengers and the skid was inspected by my FO (First Officer); as I stayed in cockpit to call Maintenance to inspect. I wrote it up and broke the [Maintenance Release] then met the maintenance personnel at the tail to inspect. Inspection revealed the tail skid shoe was scraped but the indicator was in the green and had not compressed. Maintenance indicated that this was no damage and released the aircraft safe for flight. Pitch report at the gate indicated a pitch on landing of 7.7 deg with limit of 8.3 deg.
B737-900 Captain reported failing to arrest the pitching up of the nose on landing resulting in a tail strike.