Jim Vincent wrote:

Funny, one of the instructors at my club landed gear up...he and his cronies
said the gear collapsed. Seems to me, had the gear collapsed, he would have
had at least some damage to the gear doors or had the ship checked out
afterwards. IMO, he just Skipped the checklist.


I had a gear collapse in a Discus, without any damage to the gear doors.
This was due to both a worn locking mechanism and a bounce on landing,
probably helped by a rabbit hole (we have a lot of them here). The
sailplane was flying again when the gear retracted and so the gear
doors properly closed in the air and the aircraft landed again on the
CG hook. I remember the feeling of something moving in my peripheral
vision field while I was looking on the runway in front of me, of
course when I understood it was the gear handle moving backward, it
was to late.