A319
Flight Crew Multiengine; Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Flight Crew Total 17000
Situational Awareness
ATC Issue All Types; Ground Event / Encounter Other / Unknown; Inflight Event / Encounter Wake Vortex Encounter; Inflight Event / Encounter Unstabilized Approach
General Maintenance Action
Procedure; Environment - Non Weather Related
Briefed auto throttle off visual approach into RWY 19R at MCI for hand flying proficiency practice. Was vectored behind an MD11. Configured early to increase separation with the MD11. Was stable at 1000 ft. and 500 ft. Below 500 ft.; airspeed increased to plus 10 knots. Made a minor bracketing correction with throttles. Around 100 ft.; looked inside to check airspeed; was on speed; and noticed [we were] picking up a major descent rate. Looked out and saw aircraft in a high descent rate at flare height. Added power; but it was not enough or in time to stop the descent rate which I am certain was caused by wake turbulence from the MD11. Aircraft hit hard but did not bounce to my knowledge. Roll out was controlled and normal. On taxi in; aircraft printed a maintenance report of unknown origin. Upon reaching gate; immediately contacted Dispatch and was conferenced with Maintenance to see what the maintenance ramifications of the landing were. Maintenance was unsure of the code at the time so I did as they suggested and entered the code into the logbook and was told they were calling Contract Maintenance to inspect. [I] performed a post flight inspection and reported no damage.
I was Pilot Monitoring on [this] flight; landing at MCI. The Pilot Flying briefed the approach and said that he would do a non-auto thrust landing for proficiency. The weather conditions were calm winds; clear skies; and 10 miles visibility. We were vectored onto the final for Runway 19R behind a heavy MD-11 and he squared the base to final and slowed to allow more room for the heavy. We configured on final and were stable at 1;000 feet where he disconnected the autopilot and auto thrust. At about 100 feet; we got a small gain and airspeed increased by 10 knots. At about 30 feet we had a sudden loss and landed hard on the runway. We bounced on the struts but I don't believe the wheels came off the ground again. Slowed and cleared the runway.The loss of energy approaching the landing flare was most likely because of wake turbulence from the heavy MD-11. Further distance behind the MD-11 would have helped. The calm winds allowed the wake to stay in place on the path behind them.
A319 flight crew reported a hard landing resulted shortly after encountering wake turbulence on short final from an MD-11.