CNN The Situation Room March 5, 2015 22:07:00
Runway no overrun area. it's a dicey airport on a good day. this was by no means a good day. this was very marginal conditions. you had a runway that the term is contaminated meaning it was icy. the question of what the braking capability on the runway is very important. they were landing downwind meaning they had a tail wind which would mean the aircraft was going faster relative to the ground and it was also some component of that wind was a cross-wind which would have caused instability potentially as they were trying to line up on the center line of the runway may have caused a wing to dip...