On 29/03/2015 4:59 PM, Peter Frederick wrote:
Or the plane slid on an icy runway and either overran the end or
exited off the side (which is what the title implies). Bad things
happen when the landing gear sink into mud!
My guess is that the landing was fairly normal except perhaps for a
variable cross-wind, and they got in trouble on the ground, just like
the Delta did in Boston or JFK a couple weeks ago. A slick runway
without warning can get scary fast, especially if it's only slick on
one side.
Peter
News this morning says they landed 1100 feet short of the runway, and
took out a power line and an antenna array on the way in, then slid on
the belly onto the runway after losing the landing gear and one of the
engines.
Pilot error? Or computer error?
Lousy weather at the time. Snowing hard and after midnight so lousy
visibilty.
RB
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