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Could be of two things, resulting in total electrical failure and- since someone was being cheap when they initially bought the plane in 2009 (ahem RyanAir) - they opted to not have a battery backup. Either a bird strike on BOTH engines, one of which ran for a little longer than the other and allowed the go around (rare but possible) or pilot error in shutting down the wrong engine (#1) after the bird strike on engine #2 (also rare, but there are documented cases of this happening too). For what it is worth, my money is on crew error/ pilot panic. There is video of the bird strike on engine #2. The engines were running long enough to retract the flaps all the way on approach. We know the reverser on #2 was deployed at landing. Video doesn't show any heat or exhaust from #1 on landing. Video DOES show heat / exhaust from #2 at landing so there was some power to it. It adds up to engine #1 being shut down. Time will tell if it was due to a "normal" albeit incorrect shut down or bird strike via the data on the recorder up to the point of loss.