Originally Posted by
Alwaysairbus
The designs of pod mounting engines are fine and with the A320 provide adequate clearance even with a high g landing with relevant strut compression. The issue here is that the aircraft for an unknown reason landed with out it gear extended, either in norm config or alternate. You can build as many safe guards as you like to mitigate landing with gears still retracted but why would anyone want to design a plane purely for crash landings when multiple failures (either of systems or system overides) would look to be the likely cause.
If gravity extension had been used, the MLG doors would have remained open and been torn off long before contact with the nacelles and the ground. The photos after the go around clearly show all landing gear doors closed. My reading of the situation was that the crew attempted to land without attempting to lower the landing gear, either by normal or freefall extension.