As am I. So, I'm also curious how this affects the pilot group at Commutair moving forward? Where everyone walked away from the accident, does it still put it in the same category as Colgan and Pinnacle?

Definitely glad everyone is alright.

Anyone know which runway that is? Says they were trying to land on 01.

That's 1. 10-28 crosses close to the threshold, you can see the sign in the pic.

I'd say they "parked" pretty close to the segmented circle/windsock.

Historically, no, the industry tends to sweep this sort of thing under the rug if they don't have 50+ corpses to explain away.

But if UAL already wasn't happy with their performance, this would almost certainly give them a contractual out. If they're cheap and reliable, they might get a pass.

A little hard to tell from the angle which way the sign was aligned. 10/28 must not have been plowed.

In that case it does look like they landed to the side of the runway. As I said, I saw someone try it once. Is there a VASI on the right side of 01?

UAL owns 40%, it would be a bottom line hit if they pulled the plug, plus they need someone ready to staff 31 145s for them. XJT and TSA don’t have the capacity to do it in the short term. Not impossible, but highly unlikely.

Don't know about the VASI. Based on Airnav, it has none. But it has an ILS. Someone somewhere said the weather was 3/4SM visibility and OVC015, so I'd assume they were shooting the approach.

Uh...from memory...looked this up right after it happened:
The ILS is to runway 01.
There is a full MALSR.
I think the PAPI for runway 19 was NOTAM'd OAS..? Don't remember.
If you pull the 'historical' WX from NWS page, right about the time of their arrival, the vis went down to 1/2 mi.

This is really what I'm struggling to understand.

In "whiteout" conditions, flying a visual approach, I would almost understand how you land off runway like that.
But from an ILS with low visibility?

Maybe the lights timed out right as they were on final?
Just brainstorming...but, an unmonitored airport would likely have pilot controlled lighting...might 'time out' right about the end of a second approach?

With the lights off...I could see flat light conditions with all the snow.