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Perhaps there was a high xwind? That would account for the pax description of being "perpindicular" to the RWY. That combined with rapidly changing RWY conditions is a receipe for diasaster.Originally Posted by mregan
My sim partner from training flew a trip to there that afternoon from ATL...they landed (his leg) , he said it was "fair braking action at the time, however it was mostly snow" they then deplaned and reboarded and took off an hour later back to ATL, at the tiime of departure he said it was changing over to sleet and the runway seemed more slick then when they had arived, he then said that they departed as the AWAC plane was on final.....so they got out just before this happened...overall according to him the conditions just downright sucked, glad everyones ok though
You need runway friction to just stay on the runway in a xwind, to say nothing of braking. The TR's will likely hurt more than they help in that situation.