Is The Strike Hitting The Flights That Hurt?

[luv2fly]

Unofficially, I'm told the crew knew they had gear up but didn't try to manually drop the doors or the nosegear.

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Can you enlighten us as to who told you, and why the crew would not have tried to manually extend the gear?

 

[eolesen]

Can you enlighten us as to who told you, and why the crew would not have tried to manually extend the gear?

[post="292827"][/post]​

Thirdhand, it's per Britt Etzold who is the ALPA safety rep at NWA. The crew got an unsafe indicator, ran the abnormal checklist, and somehow got a safe indicator on the FE panel, and determined that they didn't need to do a physical check prior to landing.

NTSB has classified this as an accident due to a resulting fire in the E&E bay, so there will be a full investigation and report.