This was an approach like no other, but it must have been carried out that way for some reason. No matter how pointless it appears to have been, it was not pointless to the pilot. Or the first officer so it seems.
There has been much discussion on this forum about the gear, and what would happen in the case of overspeed and gear selection.
If you were not sure what the gear would do, you could try cycling it at high speed. With a long enough runway and a compliant copilot, why not try it and see what happens? Why not indeed.
This accident makes no sense whatsoever except for this. If an attempt was being made to settle an argument regarding gear selection and overspeed limits, it is not so strange at all.
Last edited by ferry pilot; 2nd Jul 2020 at 18:00.