B767-300ER flight crew reported a hard landing resulted in a tail strike.

Attributes
ACN	1427836
Time
Date	201702
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	B767-300 and 300 ER
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Landing
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying Captain
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Person 2
Function	First Officer Pilot Not Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Ground Event / Encounter Ground Strike - Aircraft

Narrative:

We had a great deal of difficulty establishing contact with tower. We were finally cleared for the visual. On final we were on speed and had no sink rate warning. We had a hard landing. We didn't realize that we had a tail strike until we were taxiing in. This was indicated by an EICAS message.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: B767-300ER flight crew reported a hard landing resulted in a tail strike.

Narrative: We had a great deal of difficulty establishing contact with Tower. We were finally cleared for the visual. On final we were on speed and had no sink rate warning. We had a hard landing. We didn't realize that we had a tail strike until we were taxiing in. This was indicated by an EICAS message.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.