Originally Posted by
bernardd
Forgive my ignorance here, but doesn't the fact they went back to POS, presumably with a fairly heavy aircraft, suggest it was quite a serious hydraulic problem? My simplistic amateur assumption would have been that it would be better to land an aircraft with a brake problem when it was light on fuel and at the maintenance base in MIA rather than POS?
If I lose 1 of my 3 hydraulic systems, the safest option in my opinion is to accomplish the overweight landing. The aircraft is certified to land at weights up to max structural takeoff weight, so it's not as big of an issue as people make it seem. It requires the lowest possibly descent rate during the flare, maybe carry in some extra power, and then you enter the "overweight landing" discrepancy in the logbook.