Had a really dorky guy in a bow tie (no offence to bow-tie wearers on the TFP) on the news last night almost gauranteeing that it was "Wind Shear" from the thunderstorm activity.
"Dude, how would you know?" I asked my television.
"There was a similar accident 20 years ago at the same location, and the fault was wind shear. Notice that the pilot ran out of runway, indicating that the cause was wind-speed related."
Now, without googling it, I found out that wind shear was a column of cold air blowing straight down to the ground. the front of this column caused high head-wind speeds, then the plane hits the down blast. If it makes it through that, the back of the column makes a high tail-wind speed, and that is how the plane has problems at the end of the runway.
To think that there was no fatalities blows my mind. Very good actions taken by everyone involved.
