Originally Posted by JamesNoBrakes

I would beg to differ. I know of a significant number of carriers that operate day in and day out on ice and snow contaminated runways with numbers of takeoffs and landings at least comparable that don't slide off the end. Not that it'll never happen, but but I do see significant differences in the steps these carriers take to ensure the exact situation in this thread does not happen, from planning to execution. Luck is not a strategy. Again, I concede that every once and a while something comes out from left field that no one could have ever foreseen or expected, but these days that is incredibly rare.