1. Impossible to rule out the human factor effect on the impending demotion. Who would call in sick for feeling demotivated for that? Can you bring your A game under those conditions? Depends on your personality?
2. Small events were taking them out of their comfort zone with each one slowing the brains ability to process information as some brain cells remained stuck asking the question "why did that occur I don't understand"?
a. Negative windshear of 15 knots .
b. failure to capture ILS [LOC] on first attempt.
c. Bird strike report. Go Around!
[First mistake disconnecting auto thrust instead of pressing TOGA no bigee. average pilot bad day at the office has happened endless times in the past and will happen endless times in the future]
d. Attempting to look beyond the flight director during go around.
e. Initial missed approach altitude just 1000 feet above.
3. The Herald report leaves some good points out from the official report
a. The captain said he reverted to "Airbus Mode".
b. The captain admits to thinking of the disciplinary measures for screwing it up while still reading checklist with a lot of work still ahead.
c. Co Pilot was unable to "open" the speed window and set the requested speed.{ can anyone shed light on this}Co Pilot admits to feeling agitated and dejected by what occurred when he started the leading edge checklist.
d. The autopilot repeatedly tripped out.
e.LE slat disagree
f.TE flap disagree
g. Low fuel for diversion
h. fuel pump low pressure light.
I. Fuel imbalance annunciation. [WHY?]
J. the co pilot could not program the fmc for the diversion in "rte 1" and after several attempts had to enter it in "rte 2" or alternate"
K.. Which diversion airport and runway length considerations
You can decide where, but at some point they were fully loaded and that caused everything to go downhill as it will for many crews. If you join the action at about 2000 feet in the missed approach and disregard how they got there for arguments sake, they got it together landed safely and I know several crews flying all over this planet that would have screwed it up far worse from that point onwards.
So many great lessons to learn here
Number one don't get complacent! When you least expect it, Wham its your turn up to bat!