Please note I'm not a pilot, others might respond differently. But it's been blustery since Sunday evening, with constant rain and it's an aircraft-carrier runway so the winds at either end can be funny. But that would not have been the problem; they didn't get near the end, and if the accident started with aquaplaning - as with the Pantanal ATR 42 yesterday - who knows what direction they would have been pointing when they decided on a GA.
At 22:40LT, fire inside the cargo depot still out of control and a high plume of smoke. News services are now cautiously saying survivors unlikely and several casualties in the the TAM building.
Airlines have, apparently off their own bat, retouted CGH flights to GRU and Viracopos.
Last edited by broadreach; 18th Jul 2007 at 01:54.