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Old 7th Aug 2016, 19:54
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Originally Posted by captplaystation
On the contrary, what was said by the originator of the post you quoted suggests otherwise "their decision of keeping the gear down " . . & that it (more likely ) collapsed due to the ROD of the subsequent arrival on the runway.
Simple geometry would indicate that there is no way any ROD, however high, would result in both locked-down MLGs collapsing (each inwards) and ending up with the aircraft sitting on top of them.

At worst you would end up driving the gear up through the top of the wing (cf BA38) and that clearly didn't happen.
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