Originally Posted by
Lake1952
I would be very surprised if this accident didn't involve a microburst or something similar.
Possibly.
Clip from a passenger TV interview:
Autumn Kerr......said that as the plane was landing it ran into trouble. "We were obviously not going to land and picked back up.....[then the plane] just hit the ground in the trees and burst into flames in the front, and then the right side bursts in the flames."
Could be the plane was ballooned by microburst outflow from the far end of the runway when trying to touch down, then hit the core downdraft. Or could be a balked landing that encountered the same downdraft. Or both.