Very odd.
There's a mechanical backup for landing gear extension. Pull the lever and all the uplock pins release - gravity and aero drag then does the rest.
In order to perform a belly landing, either they had a complete failure of both the normal (hydraulic) and emergency (mechanical) extension systems, or they elected to do it. Can't see why they'd do the latter.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Tue 1 Nov 2011, 18:54,
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