Did the go around correctly - are you kidding me - they left one of the nose wheels on the ground
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The crew should have gone around much earlier
Oh dear. Here we go again. The ATIS and ATC reported moderate turbulence and windshear on final approach and TDZ, yet the overall conditions were within the aircraft's limits. If we all performed a go-around when faced with these conditions there'd be diversions all over the place!
A go-around is never 'planned'. It's the trained
reaction to an event - be it an aircraft lining up when you're a mile out or a gust of wind that renders the landing unsafe when you're a foot off the deck. There was no reason to perform a go-around before they did so and the procedure appears to have been followed 'correctly'.
As
misd-gin says, you can't really defend the decision to push the nose forward in these circumstance. 8 degrees nose down is an awful lot, so I imagine there's more to this than has been reported thus far.
If one is guessing, it is quite possible that they were experiencing a gust which caused the float, the PF applied forward pressure on the yoke to counteract the aircraft's natural tendency to climb with the added lift, but unfortunately this action coincided with the gust abating, leading to an exaggerated nose down attitude and a nosewheel strike.
But it's all guesswork until the full report comes out.