Originally Posted by
freshgasflow
So listening to radio , it seems that ATC asked them to climb to 3000 at go around. However, crew mentioning "struggling" and instead decide on altitude of 2000. And there is a lot of hesitancy in voice. So basically does this imply that even at time of go around, engines were already struggling ?
No. It means the engines most likely smacked the ground and started to have issues after being bashed into pavement.
I think we will see, there was absolutely nothing mechanically wrong with this aircraft up to the point of first ground contact.