Originally Posted by
giggitygiggity
I assume they just selected the gear up at the usual trigger point for selecting it down. This is assumption here, but SOPs, practical drift or perhaps the reality of repetitive line flying may dictate that in normal circumstances, the gear comes down at 1700 ft or whatever, this would have triggered them to reach and move the gear lever, without thinking what they were actually doing.
Looking at the diagram in the report, the gear up is selected just before meeting with the glide slope.
Then there is a brief interval when they descend below the slope, presumably because of the drag of the gear doors that open to let the gear back in.
There follows a period when the descent rate is about 1 degree, much less than the 3 degrees of the GS, and the IAS remains about 225kts.
This changes about 2.3NM before touchdown, possibly by the pilots noticing the need for correction, to another 5-6 degree dive to rejoin the glide slope, which they achieve about 1NM before the start of runway and by maintaining a speed of only about 215kts throughout the dive.
Did they engage any braking action during this interval? The report does not indicate such.
About 20 seconds later they meet the planet in an unexpected scratching fashion.
Is the above a possible scenario?