[Tom Tetroxide]

Does it really matter what it was before the go around? Normally if you do a go around you are going to get the gear up and clean up the flaps. If you look at the landing videos you can see that the aircraft was in the clean configuration (no landing gear or flaps) at touchdown on the runway.

The reason those four minutes are missing is probably due to the bird strikes on both engines that shut both down and thus the electrical power generators. The 737s still have a cable system for actuating the flaps, elevator, and rudder.

The pilots had very, very little time to get through any checklists to the point that they didn’t manually deploy landing gear, which you can do in a 737.

When the pilot brought the aircraft down to the runway it floated about the runway a bit due to ground effect until reaching nearly half way down the runway and crashed into the berm.

[RckyRaCoCo]

I'm beginning to believe the theory that he tried to avoid the birds all together with a go-around, but unfortunately SHTF(literally) after gear/flap retraction. The brief go-around altitude/airspeed gain had him too high and too fast to complete a straight in, and with gear and flaps retracted...he felt he had no choice when both engines suddenly DOA'd(or mostly DOA), tried the 180, and he ran out of time/energy.

Goes without saying...easy to second guess his actions(worse comes to worse, put it in the water)...when it's not your arse in the seat/in the moment.

[PAR35]

I would suggest if a pilot is on final, lined up with the runway, and both engines fail, that getting it on the ground is more important than trying to circle around, without power, while reading through check lists. Pilots today seemed to want to concentrate on checklists instead of flying in emergency situations.