Anybody know anything about the gear lifting hydraulics on this plane? A guy yesterday came out with the same idea steeeve is now expressing but he added something Steeeve hasn’t mentioned. The position of the wheels carriage as the plane went down. Usually prior to lifting the gear the wheels are back wheel low front wheel high. As the gear retracts however the carriage goes forward with front wheel lower rear higher in order to clear the bay. In the vid based on the seeming position of the carriage it looks like they may have tried to raise the gear . Was there a coincidental dual engine failure or could some blowout in the hydraulics have interfered with the engines running? If the latter it’ll probably take forever to figure out
I believe the RAT has enough power to *lower* the landing gear and operate the flaps and control surfaces, but it does not have the power to *raise* the gear from a lowered and locked position.
A total hydraulic systems loss that isn’t in the engine nacelle has zero chance of killing the engine, let alone both. One that’s in the engine nacelle could only kill that one engine, not both.