I see two sides to the ere fence , those for and those against , can we come out and show our flags guys.
No one has yet come on here as in the PAT incident and stated that they were involved and what happened , therefore no one knows do they.
Therefore BIAEGHH your assumption that the gear warning horn CB was pulled may or may not be right , but even if it had , gear checked down three greens and then reds blues greens on final no warning hiorn should not have made any difference (if that was the case) it is an equally valid assupmtion to make that neither crew member checked the gear was down and locked , correct???The assumption that the aircaft was wrecked is also valid , a wheels up landing would not only damage the airfarme but may also have wrecked the props and shock loaded both engines , I think we would all agree that that may define "wrecked ".Boeing MEL you seem very sure do you know the gen ???? If it was an undercarriage problem of which the crew were aware and no notificatuon was given to the tower , by way of a pan or other , then it wasnt really text book management.
The one thing that can be said is if the crew were aware of a gear problem then the emergency services would almost certainly have been there , but they werent ??????.
You could also blame air traffic who could have seen the gear was not down and instructed a go around , it used to be a check on mititary airfields that the tower did exactly that .
So although no one likes assuming as we all know what that makes of us , people will speculate on forums thus . There is no point in cat fighting and slagging each other off just because one opinion does not match yours , unles of course they are total bollocks , to which none of the opinions on here really are .
But hey every string needs a devils advocate .