The “gear up” tone can be heard in the background in the plane’s transmission to ATC. Clear as a bell. One theory is they were coming in way too fast, and in the airbus the gear will not deploy over a certain airspeed.
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Get-there-itis again. He was too high on the approach and the controller warned him repeatedly, but he didn’t want to go around. After a very steep descent reached the runway traveling too fast and the gear would not deploy. Scraped the engines, damaging them. Had to go around anyway, but couldn’t gain much altitude with the now malfunctioning engines. Managed to turn and line up with the runway again, but the engines failed. You could see him madly trying to pull the nose up just before impact. Looks like pilot error all the way.