Originally Posted by
WIRunner
Those are some pretty big tracks. I think if we had an image that went down further it may be easier to make things out. The path that is there is pretty clearly the same width of the plane. (Central maine had a nasty snow storm that day, northern Maine had several and there is still a significant amount of snow there.) it is plausible that the tracks is what the aircraft had made after a few bounces.
I am surprised that if conditions were that bad (it was snowing pretty hard that day and VERY windy) that they didn't head to Bangor or Portland where it may have been better. (Not that Bangor was much better, there were a lot of cancellations that day.)
Would the pilots for flight operations have been responsible for the decision to divert or not? And does it look like the pilots are in trouble for what happened to that aircraft? If so, would the primary responsibility go to the captain, the pilot actually at the controls doing the landing, or both?