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Old 29th May 2020, 14:48
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Originally Posted by AGBagb
45 pages of comments........ Are we any nearer to knowing whether: a) this was a horrible gear-up landing and go-round, that then got even worse; or b) was this a poorly executed gear-down go-around, with the gear then raised well before a positive rate of climb? The focus here seems more on how they crew got themselves into the mess, without anyone being sure what the mess was they got themselves into.....
Early on in the thread, calculations were made about - if the gear were down to start with - how long the gear would take to retract so that no damage was made to the doors when the pods scraped, as seen in video. The conclusion was that the gear was never down.

When photographs and video emerged of the runway scrapes, it became clearer that there was not enough time for the full gear retraction cycle to have taken place. Therefore, the gear was never down.
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