The ATSB does not regard these pilots as having a routine flight and landing. They are reportedly pretty angry that the the Captain and First Officer were forced to resign considering the job they did. This plane took out the boundary fence of the airport, it went over houses at an altitude of bare metres above their roofs. I’m not a pilot, but many who were say they did an incredible job to avoid taking out hundreds on the ground as well as the ones in the air. They got it airborne, then flew at the lowest altitude they could as long as they could, to get airspeed so when they finally began their climb, they didn’t go straight into the ground.
You would think some kind of onboard computer would recognize an error like that early on.
All they had to do was push up the power when they saw the boundary fence coming up. Even after they struggled to get airborne all they had to do was push up the power to avoid going over houses at an altitude of bare meters. All they had to do was push up the power to avoid flying at the lowest altitude possible to gain airspeed.
Maybe you see a trend here? If you’re struggling for airspeed and altitude the first thing you do is get the maximum thrust you can from the engines. Since the lack of power for the takeoff was directly related to their erroneous weight calculations and since takeoff thrust is computed on weight, altitude of the airport, runway length and other considerations they had plenty of excess thrust to call on. They didn’t.