Originally Posted by
clearedtocross
Can anyone confirm the gear was down before the first bounce? Electrical failures might have disrupted indications.
Yes - check first video in post #346. The main gear are visible hanging below the aircraft in at least one video frame, immediately following the first bounce (somewhere in the first second of video). You have to step through the video frame-by-frame to see it. Of course, that doesn't mean "down
and locked."
It looks to me (although I can't swear to it due to low video resolution) that the gear are already damaged by first ground contact, and thus progressively fold backwards during the airborne part of the first bounce under the influence of the high airspeed. By the second touchdown, they are folded back and useless.