Error v's Violation
Cactusjack I fully endorse your post regarding the need for people to take a deep breath and allow the internal and external investigations into how the Qantas B767 gear was not lowered in sufficient time to allow for a stabilized approach to be completed. The "arm chair critics" who wait in the shadows for any opportunity to bad-mouth either the crew or the company, or both, have likely never sat in the cockpit of an aircraft let alone a large one.
It is all too easy to throw brick-bats or make ill-informed judgement on others from afar. The truth will out and the appropriate action will be taken, when all the facts are known. The one fact we all know is that the aircraft made a missed approach and thereafter landed safely. Whatever else the crew may or may-not have done they averted an embarrassing and potentially dangerous "wheels-up" touchdown.