smooth go around !
Hi guys,
It is rather "easy" to **** up a go-around and hit the ground with high energy.
Step one : Do not set the Thurst levers in the TOGA detent : (this has happened very recently to an A320 of JetBlue and Air France)
Step two : Set the Auto-Pilot back On (As an AF A320 in Sept 2009 at CDG)
Result : The SRS mode will not be triggered and aircraft will still be in the approach mode, and consequently descend with engines spooling up, then in IMC if you don't read your FMA (like Jetblue and AF) the somographic illusion occurs... and you have very few seconds to react when you see the ground coming when breaking of the cloud base (the AF had a ceiling of 300ft as well, and they stopped the descend at 70 ft if I remember well, but this was an A320, easier may be to arrest the descend).
Then may be a sort of more or less "flat" ground contact. And bearing in mind that the Alitalia aircraft was at least at a 1000M from the crash scene, in dawn light and reduced visibility, they may not have a very clear view of the final aircraft attitude at ground contact.