my colleague catherine spoke to geoffrey thomas, editor of daily airline news.ere's the full interview of him explaining what could have caused the crash. look, it's quite possible that and quite probable. now, looking at the vision that the aircraft actually had a bird strike prior to landing. now, there are warnings out at that airport for this time of the year for flocks of mallard birds, which grow up to a size of about two kilos. now it appears as though there has been a bird strike, and one of the engines, um, the right hand engine was impacted. now, this would have caused obviously a lot of pressure in the cockpit. um, there are indications that there was a circuit made of the airport and then an approach, but with all the, uh, checking and cross—checking going on relating to this engine failure, it could well be that the pilots simply forgot to put the landing gear down. now, that sounds extraordinary, because there are all sorts of warnings that go off in the cockpit. uh, if the if the undercarriage is not deployed. now, there is some suggestion there w