Originally Posted by zubart

Just heard on the nightly news that the airplane had an engine failure on short final. Having an engine failure at 500 to 1000 feet can be a little hairy. At this point the Captain would have to decide to execute a single engine go-around or continue the approach with present flaps and land. Below 500 continueing the approach with current landing flaps may be the option to take, but drag from full flaps may cause airsppeed to bleed off and a uncontrollable sink rate to develope. Above 500 feet it would probably be best to execute a single engine manual go-around, autopilot and auto-throttle disenged. B-777 may have slightly different proceedures for an engine failure on short final. Looks like the crew did a great controlling the touch down and allowing everyone walk away from the incident.