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but fascinating to read about, I find.


cheers,
Robin.
 
You can learn a lot by reading accident reports. They teach you why many air regulations are written in blood.
For example, I religiously read the accident, incident and malfunction reports published in “Parachutist” magazine and they cured me of a few bad habits. After a couple decades, AIMs blurred together and started to read like young jumpers repeating the same mistakes that had killed their predecessors 20 or 30 years ago.
 
It is depressing obviously - but still a good reading. Red the entry about the 1996 midair in India, when an Il-76 slammed into a 747 and 349 people died. Damning !
 
Anniversary of THE wind-shear event most remember:

Some hope in CAT avoidance

More:

Runaway roll vortices were studied by Fujita and others:

Planes are not the only victims of the catch-all term “wind-shear:”
Here tornadoes were blamed:
Some twisters have a low-level inflow jet also called the “ghost train” that can do damage well away from the condensation funnel—a tornado itself can be wider than it looks:

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6PWtNkh-MPE&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.trekbbs.com%2F&embeds_referring_origin=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.trekbbs.com&source_ve_path=Mjg2NjY&feature=emb_logo

Ugh
View: https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/1c3ina7/in_1996_7yearold_jessica_dubroff_was_attempting/
 
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