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Does anyone heard anything about what actually happened? Was it a mechanical failure causing loss of directional control at the end of the landing run?
Almost certainly a wind gust that turned the a/c into a weather vane.
ISTR an Aer Lingus Fokker 50 going off piste at LBA in similar conditions aeons ago. Taxiing for take off via the N/S taxiway on the line of the old 01/19 runway when it weathercocked into wind.