It looked like it hit the runway really hard, causing landing bear to snap
It looked like it hit the runway really hard, causing landing bear to snap
It looked to me as if the plane, on very short final suddenly lost some of the headwind as the wind was gusting. This would result in sudden loss of altitude and that very hard landing which probably snapped the landing gear. If that was the case, there was no time for the pilots to correct and reverse the loss of lift while they were that close to the runway. In retrospect, a go-around before that point in the approach might have resulted in a different outcome. Thank God there were no fatalities.