Originally Posted by
tennisguru
I was in the sim one day running a new hire checkride. He was getting flustered and forgot to call for the gear to come down. The plane was calling "Too Low, Gear. Too Low, Gear" continuously the last 400 feet and he never caught onto it. I don't even know if he even heard it or if he heard it but just couldn't process it.
All that to say that given the right set of circumstances, stress, and inexperience (no clue about the crew in the crash) it is possible to try to land without the gear being down.
Yes there is ample past precedent for over-tasked pilots "tuning out" gear warnings. More common in GA, where it's a horn as opposed to transport jets which actually verbalize "Gear", and have a PM.