@joema, others,
I am not defending the guy.
I am not saying they didn't make mistakes.
I am just interested in what happened below 560 ft and WHY?
I am interested if the protection feature(the 40kg) had any influence on his brains. Because if that's the case maybe we can learn something from that.
It happens several times a day in the world that aircraft for some reason end up high. I bet that even the selection made on the MCP aren't that uncommon. YES it is not clever to press LVLCHANGE with go-arround alt selected. But these things happen. NOT GOOD but they DO happen.
After ending up high, energy wise the Thrust Levers needed to be at idle until aprox 600 ft to be stabilized at 500 ft. This happens also several times a day, somewhere in the world. This approach was still do-able from 600ft. The only thing needed was the right thrust setting.
YES I know. Probably he thought that the AT would take care of his speed.
YES I know. He should have checked is airspeed.
I just can't believe that after pulling the yoke below 560 ft and after expecting the AT would take care of his airspeed there wasn't another reason why he/they increased thrust so late.
Anyway......enough said by me.