Hotel Uniform Yankee and Yakshimash, do you think the crew could have opened the emergency hydraulics panel and attached the pump handle and then maybe manually pumped the gear down before they landed at ABZ. That's one method they may have used. Perhaps they consulted a magic spell book,said a few magic words and hoped for the best. Were you really being serious when you commented on how the gear was down for the landing at ABZ
? The Jetstream is a little more advanced than a PA28
.