Originally Posted by
tdracer
... What boggles my mind is not that the flight crew could miss the warnings that the gear were not down - it's that they continued with the initial approach when it was so obviously flawed. Particularly in the current environment where there is so little air traffic - aborting the approach and doing it again wouldn't take much time.
Particularly since, if they were high and fast on approach, they would be looking to add as much drag as possible, which the gear would help with. Cockpit workload at that point, though, may have been an issue...