Originally Posted by
Fursty Ferret
I wonder if they tried to use the emergency cancel button to silence the overspeed alarm (and I'm pretty sure that it can't be cancelled that way) and inadvertently removed the GEAR NOT DOWN warning.
By pressing the EMER CANC pushbutton you can switch any aural warning, but the discrepancy message remains on ECAM. But these guys were likely ‘‘tunnellized’’, as said earlier, and obviously didn’t hear any aural warning nor any other sound, as it uses to be when one get beyond his brain limit.