Originally Posted by
Ollie Onion
...at some point TOGA was selected and the aircraft did commence a climb but only after scraping the pods. To believe ANY crew. could fly an approach with no gear and be so unaware of the warnings they continued it all the way to the ground is just too much of a stretch.
From the posted video (that was apparently released by Pakistani CAA) it is clear that there were two brief ground contacts with the engines, roughly 8 seconds apart. If the G/A would have been initiated before the first touch-down, there would have been only one. The evidence strongly suggests that TOGA was only selected after the first ground scrape with the engines. To repeat the famous quote, once the impossible had been eliminated, what remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth...