on the ground because of these conditions. i don t know if you have a chance to look at these pictures right now. ice and snow on a runway, if you are landing in ice and snow, what effect does that have on an aircraft and what precautions are taken? it has a terrible effect on an aircraft. the plane itself can t get any braking action. out can t go out and put samt on the runway. there are a lot of things you do to roads that you continue do to a runway because planes can t have it. what they have to do, they scrape and have a machine almost like a street sweeper to try to remove as much as possible. the plane still has to get the braking action. part of that, of course, is the spoiler system on the wings. from the pictures it looks like an md-83. you have to rely and people notice them because they re the things that pop up on the wings. you have to rely on that in