Originally Posted by
ExSp33db1rd
ATC watching? ......suggests that they did know, if so why not advise the crew, did they really want their runway damaged ?
Maybe, but I'm not sure ATC knew any more than the a/c was H 'n' H certainly for most of the app.
Krismiler sums up a poss scenario in the VCP well at post #895 just above. It's not clear what ATC actually saw and, in many ways, while it might have saved the day had the lack of gear been noticed in time and had the crew actually responded to a final shout from ATC - even that is highly debatable if they were so fixated on getting the jet down onto the runway.
Ultimately this accident seems to have been set up at FL"x" at speed "y" where both "x" and "y" are quite a high! Maybe we will find out what really went on ...... that is up to the AAIB. Ultimately it's what went on in Row 0 which matters. Just my view based on unclear facts and educated guesses put forward by several people atm.... Thats all we still have.
Cheers, H 'n' H