Originally Posted by rickair7777

If the airplane touches the runway, you must assume it was severly damaged and may be incapable of flight, so you finish the landing. In a prop plane the props will strike first, which prett much destroys them, so a go-around would be near suicidal...you would probably gain just enough altitude to make it really hurt when you came down for good.

As the article mentioned, their flaps (and who knows what else) were mangled...a damaged jet might not clear the obstacles if it couldn't raise gear and/or flaps (to reduce drag) after a go-around.

Sounds like they may have initiated the GA due to excessive float and without knowing about the gear problem at the time...that would make more sense.