stock here: There are 2 pilots, are they saying the one not at the controls could not have dropped the landing gear manually? Are they injected? Almost for sure.
from a comment on this video: There is a litany of errors here. The go around was rushed. They took 7 minutes from the bird strike to the crash. They should have taken more time to check through the landing checklist, but no doubt the pilots were stressed. I suspect they became overwhelmed and simply forgot to extend flaps and gear. Even if the hydraulics failed, they could have manually lowered the gear, and electrically extended flaps. Pilots can fly on one engine. They rushed, or didn’t do the go around check list properly. There are three systems available for hydraulics. Plus an electric hydraulic pumps, although 6 times slower than the engines. The pilots had control of the alerions when lining up, so they had hydraulics Also the right engine deployed the thrust reversers ( Air brakes) ; another reason to think they had hydraulics the entire flight. Before the bird strike, they had flaps extended, but retracted them after the go around was started. The landing gear was never deployed. The final error was building the localizer antenna on a 3 meter high berm, with 25 cm. of reinforced concrete, to support thin pipes. Usually the localizer antenna are installed with the concrete even with the ground, and the antenna fairly easily bent down if hit by an aircraft. Why they have cinder block fences around the perimeter is beyond me, but the aircraft could have gone a fair distance even without gear, but tragically a combination of errors and improper localizer support structure, design led to so many preventable deaths. For respect of the Captain, and First officer, who had 6000 flying hours, and perished, I could be wrong.Show less