Originally Posted by Daniel Larusso
Yes, it would have just looked more dramatic b/c the Boeing would likely have stalled so you would probably have seen a roll into the trees instead of the Bus sitting there in Alpha prot just above the stall. Plane crashes either way, I guess one could argue that the deal was less violent b/c it didn't stall, although I don't think that makes what they did any better.
I disagree, when the pilot tried to add power and go around the plane would have followed his commands. The aircraft would have not been locked into the landing mode There is no way a lightly loaded airliner can cruise along at 150 feet altitude for over a mile and not accelerate, unless the computer would not allow it, as the computer thought it was time to land. This is why Airbus had to change programming to not allow that scenerio to happen again. Sure the pilots had the plane in the wrong "mode" but once there, they had no ability to fly the aircraft out.