He seems to me that he knew how to fly the required manoeuver. He was just too trusting of the automation.
No. He didn't know how to execute a go around after touch down. He wasn't too trusting the automation and was let down but expecting the automation to do something that it wasn't designed to do and was not going to happen. He needed to know that triggering go levers will neither get the thrust nor the FDs. Thrust had to be manually obtained and just sufficient rotation to avoid nose wheel touch down without FD guidance had to be obtained. 15 degrees would have caused a tail strike. There was no need to retract the gear before checking thrust. If gear was not retracted the aircraft may not have been destroyed.
Last edited by vilas; 18th Sep 2016 at 19:48.