Originally Posted by
BrooksPA-28
There is some reason to question the validity of this video. The photos of the plane (showing the rat deployed) show the gear up. The video shows the gear down. The ATC transmission mentions a belly landing. This also implies a gear up configuration. Finally it appears to me that the shape of the buildings that the plane passes behind, are distorted by the plane's passage. This could be an artifact of the video compression. It would be interesting if someone could identify the building and surrounding area, then match that to the crash location.
What sort of warning is there if gear is lowered but fails to correctly lock? What's the procedure if gear fails to lock? Could crew have thought that a warning was a bad sensor, rather than an actual failure? I'm picturing a scenario where perhaps the crew is suspicious of the gear but think that it's down, but then when it doesn't hold they do a go-around, but the engines have already been damaged.