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Whilst reading the report I put myself into the pilot's heads.
That was a tough landing, what just happened, should we have gone around?
Dark out, flashlight only for a visual inspection.
What are we actually looking for when we inspect?
Our passengers want to get home.
The company wants our passengers to get home.

I am not for one minute insinuating that the company puts pressure on the pilots to keep to schedule as the cost of safety, however it is human nature to want to please your employer and customers, or to not let them down. The consequences of cancelling are significant. It is human nature for the pilots to put pressure on themselves.

Human factors and their relationship to decision making are an integral part of flying and a significant part of training. A thorough debrief of the pilots with regard to human factors would have been interesting. What went through their minds and what were their discussions to cause them to not conduct a go-round and to then fly the aircraft to YUL?