Maybe you could start with "The Munich Disaster", which happened on the 6th of February 1958 due to unawareness of the effects on contaminants (water, hail, snow, even invasion of snails on the runway surface) on runways for aircraft operation. This case was due to high depth of snow deposit. Till then, there was no experience on those issues, apart from a case happened in winter 1948/49 at Vancouver, but this information didn't spread generally in the aviation world. There is a a book on the Munich disaster and it might be useful going through it (or on internet summaries). I did myself a research on the Canadian case (the first accident where the air community started to get awareness of the danger of contaminants on runways) which luckily didn't cost lives, getting in touch with several aviation agencies in Canada but I had no luck. Another accident with standing water on runway as a heavy contributing factor to that disaster happened at Congonhas airport in San Paulo, Brasil, in July 2007.
Said that, I would suggest to search the Net to find all those cases (unfortunately quite a lot) looking for air accidents due to runways contamination.
Best luck for your search and your studies 👍👋
Last edited by capricorn23; 13th March 2024 at 21:39.