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This. Sure. But pure speculation. The forward momentum of that airplane could have clipped a tail and taken it off while pulling up and max thrust. He was wayyyy below minimum decision height (called out and set before landing, usually a few hundred feet).

OTOH, he could have very well collided with the other Airbus on the taxiway rapidly halting his forward momentum and exploding into a fireball subsequently taking out everything for half a mile ahead.

What's alarming her is the distance of the Air Canada jet to the ground, less the tail of the Airbus = this guy was FEET AWAY from clipping that jet.