[Not a pilot] Seven seconds from impact an "increase speed" command was given and not a "go-around" command. Had they cleared the sea wall could they have gotten the nose down enough to avoid the kind of landing experienced by Turkish Air 1951 in Schiphol?
My question is (if we allow that they thought they had adequate speed) whether it is likely that they thought the landing could be salvaged with the nose-up attitude they had, the non-standard descent path, and relatively long runway.