Missing the gear on the checklist should never happen on a multi-crew flightdeck.
Not to mention the big red light in the gear handle that works even with the warning horn CB pulled.
Lip-service to checks? What an earth was the Air Engineer doing?
Unforgivable
As for the aircraft soldiering for a couple of years - why not just pull the plug on the whole C130K fleet - it is providing
nothing in terms of output for Defence.
Someone wake up and smell the coffee - this incident could have been a lot worse and is indicative of lack of trg on a reducing fleet approaching OSD.