Control position
At Pensacola in the sixties, a newly rated pilot landed gear up in his A-4. As the long slide came to an end he anticipated the investigation and thinks, select Gear Down.
"They'll never know, Right?" In front of the crash team the wounded Skyhawk shook,
groaned, and lifted itself up into a reasonable approximation of "A/C parked".
Gaming the investigation comes with its perils.
Obviously, this isn't the case here, and for the above reason, don't read too much into
a wounded bird. At least I won't, I leave that to better qualified people.