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Old 8th Aug 2016, 09:47
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ACMS
 
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No actually only the small doors are open mate, which is normal.

The large nose gear doors are located forward, basically under and slightly forward of the 2 right side pitot tubes and Ice detector when they are open. These doors you see on the Air France 777 landing are the smaller doors only. The big doors are closed.

Look at the normal photo I've included of a EK 777 retraction in this reply, the main nose gear doors are under and slightly forward of the Pitot tubes, now look at the crash photo again.

On the EK 777 crash photo above the large doors are open........indicating the gear was most likely in transit.....

Ok

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