It would have been worse^. Throttle response is far from instantaneous (jets spool relatively slowly), and any speed that they did manage to gain contributed gr

It would have been worse^. Throttle response is far from instantaneous (jets spool relatively slowly), and any speed that they did manage to gain contributed greatly to lift and almost certainly lessened the force of the impact. Throttling up a plane for a go around is not at all analogous to stepping on the gas while crashing into a brick wall. ^ total speculation