Looks like they landed long, tried to force it on, left main hit pretty hard and at the last minute decided to do a go-around. The pull up was pretty steep. Didn’t appear to be much of a cross wind.
That’s really wild.
The winds were crazy. Not going to assume DIE though, because my initial impression is that a DIE pilot wouldn’t have had the skillsets nor psychological mettle to take back off for the successful go around and landing.
Years back, I experienced an interesting landing in Hawaii — forget which island — where mere moments before touchdown, the pilot suddenly aborted and weeee, up we went. Instead of the expected tap to the ground it was full throttle.
It were as if a sudden collision hazard had appeared on the runway.
Well, after some seconds, it became.. obvious that whatever it was, he had successfully avoided it. 😃
He explained that there was a sudden downdraft, without explicitly stating that if he didn’t do that, the plane would have slammed onto the runway and game over.
Nobody screamed or otherwise freaked out. He was most apologetic as we all passed by the cockpit upon departure.
It was Halloween. The flight crew was eagerly handing out candy for their best effort at offering a consolation prize.
It’s Always Something.