Safety message included in ATSB Report involving Airbus A330 9M-MTA hard landing at Melbourne.
Quote: "A stable approach significantly reduces the risk of a hard landing.
If an approach does become unstable, a rushed attempt to recover the approach may produce an undesirable aircraft response. There is also a risk of breaking down the shared understanding between the pilots, which in turn limits the opportunity of the other flight crew to detect or react to inappropriate actions.
When landing, pilots should maintain a safety philosophy of “if in doubt, go around.” Unquote.
http://www.atsb.gov.au/media/5772618...nal-report.pdf
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All of the above merely states the bleeding obvious and has been regurgitated hundreds of times in similar landing incidents over the years. What is significant is the aircraft was on automatic pilot down to 700 feet when the pilot disengaged it and attempted a manual landing. He stuffed it up big time and landed so heavily a complete undercarriage change was the result. Once again the entirely predictable result of an airline philosophy of actively discouraging manual flying until the last few seconds on final. And this type of accident is increasingly common given the well known issue of automation dependency encouraged by various operators around the world.