On Feb 20, 6:18 pm, (Paul Tomblin) wrote:

So what's the story? It's pretty obvious from the alarms going off and
the way the camera goes to the side window just before touch down that
they knew the gear wasn't down, but why?

I don't think it was a gear failure. As I responded to Peter's post,
the poster of the video seems to have been the cameraman as well. If
that's the case, the caption on the video page claims that it was
pilot error. The pilot pats the dash in a way I would if I screwed up
like that.

Then there's the short approach. If I had a known gear problem, I
would have probably been on a long final to ease the vertical load and
pick my spot carefully. I fly a fixed-gear so I'm not familiar with
proper technique.

Marco