Originally Posted by dekora

I've been to the scene. That craft was waaaay too hot coming in, trying to avoid severe weather. Flightaware's log of the flight shows just minutes before the event, they lost over 8,000 of altitude in one minute, without gaining airspeed. The jet over shot the runway, drove almost 1/3 of a mile through a soybean field, slammed into the ditch of Highway 9, vaulted across the highway - leaving much of their plane at the edge of the road. The plane stopped some 750' north of the highway.