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Still not sure whether weather was a factor since it's being reported that the plane 'overshot' the runway, indicating that it had touched down and was on the landing roll but somehow couldn't stop. Maybe a hydroplane?

Eerily, today is the 20th anniversary of the Dallas thunderstorm/microburst crash.

20 years ago today, on August 2, 1985, a Delta Air Lines Lockheed L1011-385-1 crashed while attempting to land at Dallas/Ft. Worth Airport, Texas in a thunderstorm. 134 of the 163 passengers and crew aboard were killed.

http://www.airdisaster.com/cgi-bin/view_details.cgi?date=08021985®=N726DA&airline=Delta+Air+Lines

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I remember that. I was on a flight landing when that happened. The guy next to me in the smoking section looked out the window and said 'looks there's a storm coming and a bad one'. Ten minutes later you couldn't see two feet from the window.