If as so many are assuming this is a stall with high AOA and little forward speed, why can't I see in the debris field or poking through the tops of the wings, and sign of the undercarriage here.
I was refering to the BA 777 incident, where at least one bogey sheared off and was in the "debris field", and the other was quite visibly seen in the wing root.
Here I can't see any sign, or I need to put my glasses back on for reading.
For the fuel starvation wolf-pack
Was the gear selected down, maybe trying to save on what little fuel they had, and it didn't work
and for the conspiracy theorists
did they forget to put the gear down, on a training flight, aka the three man crew (perhaps only guessing) did the trainee panic on the sounding of the EPGWS and pull back hard... just a theory thats all...
but my main point is still where is the gear.... - up, destroyed, detached, crumpled, why not as expected in heavy estimated 9G landing they weren't pushed up, or was the ground too soft..... probably just answered my own question but still puzzled.....