B737 first officer reported landing with minimum separation behind a departing widybody aircraft at ...

Attributes
ACN	1463491
Time
Date	201707
Local Time Of Day	1801-2400
Place
Locale Reference	LAX.Airport
State Reference	CA
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Night
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	B737 Undifferentiated or Other Model
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Landing
Flight Plan	IFR
Aircraft 2
Make Model Name	Widebody Transport
Flight Phase	Climb
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	First Officer Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Experience	Flight Crew Type 6905
Events
Anomaly	ATC Issue All Types

Narrative:

We were landing at lax prior to the late night runway configuration change. We were cleared to land on 25L; a [widebody] aircraft [aircraft Y] was put on the runway with a line up and wait then cleared for takeoff. The [widebody] aircraft was very slow to power up which gave us minimum separation for landing. We landed right in [aircraft Y's] jet blast. Upon further review; I found that there was only one tower controller at the time working all 4 runways at lax. One person working both the north complex and south complex at the 3rd busiest airport at a critical time at night is extremely dangerous and needs to be looked at!

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: B737 First Officer reported landing with minimum separation behind a departing widybody aircraft at LAX. After landing he learned that the entire airport is being routinely controlled by one Controller during late night operations.

Narrative: We were landing at LAX prior to the late night runway configuration change. We were cleared to land on 25L; a [widebody] aircraft [aircraft Y] was put on the runway with a line up and wait then cleared for takeoff. The [widebody] aircraft was VERY slow to power up which gave us minimum separation for landing. We landed right in [aircraft Y's] jet blast. Upon further review; I found that there was only one Tower Controller at the time working all 4 runways at LAX. One person working both the North Complex and South Complex at the 3rd busiest airport at a critical time at night is EXTREMELY dangerous and needs to be looked at!

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B737 first officer reported landing with minimum separation behind a departing widybody aircraft at lax. After landing he learned that the entire airport is being routinely controlled by one controller during late night operations.