Do you have any idea how a modern commercial aircraft operates on landing? The landing gear will free fall to the down and locked position without hydraulics pressure. The ILS is engaged well before the LG and flaps are deployed. The autopilot follows the ILS all the way to the ground a few hundred feet from the end of the run way. This is a Cat III landing where all the pilot has to do (assuming that they armed the spoilers and put the flaps and landing gear down) is activate thrusters and apply the brakes. There was no attempt to do any of that. The plane passed the ILS landing area and, due to the ground lift effect, the plane continued a few feet above the runway for several hundred yards.
Some have mentioned a lack of training, but I cannot imagine a crew being so poorly trained that a bird strike would freak out the pilots and cause the crash.
So, either a pilot deliberately crashed the aircraft or they were incapable of doing it.
The gear will NOT freefall by itself without the gear handle down,
You don’t know when the ILS is engaged, do you ? It could be
at anytime before or on final.
“The autopilot follows the ILS all the way to the ground a few hundred feet from the end of the runway.” I hope you meant a few hundred feet after the approach end of the runway, otherwise just more sophmoric understanding of CAT III