Same thing just happened in Kazan Russia. A pilot was on the landing path and decided that he was too low, too early so he aborted landing, and pulled up the no

Same thing just happened in Kazan Russia. A pilot was on the landing path and decided that he was too low, too early so he aborted landing, and pulled up the nose to go around again. Problem was that he was also too slow at that point to safely pull up. The result of pulling up the nose was that he lost airspeed, stalled, and plunged nose first into the runway. It's counterintuitive to go down and increase airspeed ( or at least remain level while you gun the engines) and that is why these pilots make this kind of mistake. They don't have enough practice flying in full control of the airplane. An additional factor is age. All of the air force pilots that fought in various wars from WWII onwards have retired. The world actually relied on these guys to fly the commercial passenger planes and build the air industry. Now the industry has to train their own pilots and the gaps are beginning to show.