Originally Posted by
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I have several questions on fact that it landed without landing gear and flaps:
- How long before landing and what altitude flaps and lending gear is released? At my recollection, minimum 20 min before landing, no?
- Does release and locking of landing gear gravity based or is it powered?
- If plane lost power on both engines, does auxiliary RAT engine sufficient to provide enough power to release landing gear?
- What kind of event might cause BOTH flaps and landing gear not being able to deployed?
Thanks
hence what I wrote about the bird strike leading to a go around decision - then they started retracting the gear while at the same time accidentally shutting down the wrong engine - hence starting to lost altitude and tight timing plus a bit of confusion/panic means no gear down and other mistakes like flaps etc