Indeed, deicing is an important safety step performed by the airlines on wintry days because of how snow and ... dye helps the ground crew clearly see what parts of the plane have been coated ...

Should you panic if your plane is doused in a colorful slime that's as freakily artificial as something out of a sci-fi film?

Although Greene acknowledged the pilot's ability to navigate safely during the plane's unexpected descent, he believes that without the snow on the ground, the outcome "could have been" different.

In fact, it is more snow within that time window ... plane, which departed from Minneapolis, crashed amid blowing snow and ...