I found some comments from pilots including the Qantas union bloke a bit thought provoking since you do get the impression a whole set of things that should have been done by the pilots weren't done until very late in the peace.
Fair enough....if that turns out to be the case the question should be , and will be , 'why?'
Equipment failure?
Poorly designed SOP's?
Communication problems ?
Medical issues?
CRM issues?
Fatigue?
A combination of all/any of the above?
For all we know the crew were working through a NNC which required a different configuration for the approach and made a good call to go-round when things were looking less than 100% stable.
Maybe the flaps didn't run when selected and they asessed it, discussed it, initiated the MAP and then got the warning in the process.
Maybe they had selected the gear down and there was a micro-switch problem which gave them a config warning?
There are a thousand and one things that could have happened. I'm not suggesting any of the above occurred but can anyone say they didn't?
Framer