Originally Posted by
Fair_Weather_Flyer
They did a great landing but I'm not sure if the whole thing was well handled. They did a series of flybys which is against the QRH, guidance note. The gear lights and EICAS would have confirmed the gear unsafe and nothing the tower could say would otherwise? They were trying to call the technical pilot and maintenance. It's not like they could get up there and fix the plane.
The current training is that you contact the company and enlist the aid of SME's, Subject Matter Experts when you have a technical problem. They possibly recommended the flybys and g maneuvers. Why wouldn't you want to try to see if the gear was partially down or all the way up? You want to burn off the extra fuel anyway, right? What is the QRH guidance note that forbids a flyby? There are no uplocks on the main gear on a 767 as I recall, the gear sits on the doors when the actuators are unpressurized.
On the other hand, some of the old school tricks like trying to do a hard bounce and go to dislodge the stuck gear have not ended well in some cases.
Here's the VASAviation video on the incident, he does a very good job as usual with the graphics and audio editing.