Why BA A350-1000 suffered tail-strike during go-around

The three-year-old widebody picked up damage to its fuselage surface when the tail struck the ground during a go-around at Heathrow after a prolonged float during the flare to land. A British Airways Airbus A350-1000 suffered a tail-strike during a go-around at London/Heathrow after its first officer applied full nose-up pitch commands, an investigation by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) has found. The jet, G-XWBC (c/n 362), was at the end of a flight from Dubai and was landing