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Other times this has happened:

Qantas https://forums.jetphotos.com/forum/general-discussion-forums...

El Al https://www.timesofisrael.com/el-al-pilots-nearly-try-landin...

IAF https://indianexpress.com/article/india/chandigarh/when-an-a...

Jetstar, 2012 (!) http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/323319

Once this 737 MAX stuff dies down, we'll probably stop seeing every pilot fart or hiccup reaching the front page. Pilots make mistakes, they always have and always will, we just haven't seen them reported as much. Commercial aircraft are still as safe as they ever were.

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It's not a very big deal. In pilot training the common saying is "there are those that have forgotten the gear, and those that will", nobody is immune, you will forget it once at some point. Luckily it beeps at you loudly when you do :-)

Here, two experienced pilots land gear up (in a small single engine machine) even though it beeps loudly...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5McECUtM8fw

Ha! I know that pilot. Indeed a very experienced man. In case anyone wonders: that airplane was fixed and flies again.

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"What is that irritating beeping noise?" Slams the body of the plane down on the runway.

Yes! That one is famous, I flew the same type of aircraft when I was in training.

That is amazing. I wonder why they did not react to the obvious beeping. They seemed to just shrug it off.

Gear warnings are the “this website is insecure, are you sure” of aviation. They go off for all kinds of dumb reasons. You learn to tune it out whether you want to or not.

It's not a very big deal.

It's a little bit bigger of a deal because this was their second going around due to being misconfigured for landing.

Commercial aircraft are much safer than they ever were. In the 60s-80s there were typically just over 2000 fatalities per year. In the last decade typically under 1000 fatalities per year, despite the increase in passenger miles since the '80s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_accidents_and_inciden...

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