Malaysia 122 gear down over parramatta

[D Chan]

Originally Posted by Jared F

Could a reason for this to be to slow the plane down? I thought it was weird as most aircraft on approach generally let the gear down at about 2000ft or so.

Thanks, Jared

While I don't know about the A330, it is possible to lower the gear early to 'slow down' on the 737ngs.. the max gear down limit is somewhere around 280 knots from memory.