787 bounce
 

Is that a boing 787?

You mean this one...

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-47177...athrow-airport

Assuming the invisible link is a reference to the BA B788 at LHR yesterday, try Spectators Balcony here:

PPRuNe: Anyone know this pilot? Buy him a pint!

Didn't think to check for invisible link.

Looks like full elevator input as the nose dropped. That was some ugly shear.

Yes I noticed that too in the picture from the BBC link... Personally I think they did a great job recuperating from the event and the go-around was the right decision.

That looks a bit crazy. Why would windshear suddenly pitch the nose down so abruptly? Fair enough the @rse drops out of it if you lose speed, but that was a violent pitch down. That was not the secondary effect of controls lowering the nose because the speed has reduced. Something fishy somewhere. Reminds me a bit of that Prune 787 (IIRC) video of weird nose down pitches on short final. Brother of MACS??

https://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/...?highlight=787

Reminds me of flying into St. John's on a nice day

True but there was a large down elevator input just before the nose pitched down.

Looks to me like he should have gone around rather earlier rather than try to save an approach that had clearly gone wrong.
But he was there and I was not so what do I know.........

No one ever does. Very clever on the part of the OP. :O

Clearly, they should have should have tootled around the coast a bit before diverting to MAN. :}

Looked quite the opposite to me! It only went "wrong" in the last seconds and they immediately took the correct action which was well executed.

I think that you're looking at the flaperons. The elevator is visually blocked by the wing except for when it goes up. There is a large amount of flaperon movement just before the * hits the wall

Windshear?
Or gust? Big difference!
Does anyone have the Metar and the Tower wind when cleared to land. And any " wind check"?

Nice to have the AAIB on board, especially with such insight. But did you consider the possibility that all the passengers, seeing the problems the crew were having with gusts, decided to rush forward and advise them how to handle it? Not saying this is the case, but can’t be ruled out....

Perfectly executed
 

Perfectly executed. Horrible ground level gusts at the time of this go around, excellent job done indeed. No reason to go around any earlier, all incoming flights were having very bumpy approaches at LHR most of yesterday and it would have meant all flights going around based on footage. GA started when appropriate and actually very very quickly considering the very sudden wind gust at basically ground level vs reaction time of pilot & then GA delay on aircraft.

The windshear escape manouvre does not consider terrain, it deals with windshear only.
You make me wonder.

M.A.S, he was picking on the MSA bit of the previous post, not the no-change of configuration. You are both on the same page.

I was already banging my head on the wall after the first one. Glad to see I've got some company! :ugh:

When do you think they pressed TOGA? Before first touchdown? Looked an impressive climb out, no doubt helped by the windspeed. Asking as SLF...

You could well be right as I didn't know they had flaperons.

As has been noted, it is difficult to see because the view is obscured by the wing, but it's almost as if the up-elevator anticipated the shear/gust. Commendably quick response on the part of the PF.

Without making comment about this particular go-around, is it mandatory to buzz off, or can one legally push it back on?

You could try, but this might be the result...

A tad dramatic perhaps but maybe. It depends. Maybe. In this case, probably not.

Have you seen the second approach, almost did the same thing but did not go-around and landed ok.I have replayed both arrivals many times and its strange that a lot of the other arrivals around that time before & after seemed ok considering the condition.