AA can circle to land if it is 1000 & 3. The weather that night was but they decided not to. We should get some FDR and CVR info to see why they chose to land downwind. We get reporters saying they landed in a driving rain storm but METAR reports say it was VFR. I know, things can change in minutes, but only when the real time data comes out will we be able to see how this happened.