A macabre subject . . .

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:

32nd Anniversary of DL 191 Crash

DFW Airport TX (WFAA TV) - " Wednesday marked the 32nd anniversary of the crash of Delta Flight 191 at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. The Lockheed L-1011 jumbo jet was coming in for a landing on a rainy Friday evening Aug. 2, 1985, when it encountered a "microburst" that sent the...
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Some hope in CAT avoidance
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New method for detecting unusual air turbulence holds promise for aviation safety

With air turbulence presenting a significant safety concern in civil aviation, especially amidst the growing impacts of climate change and the expansion of the aviation industry, the need for effective monitoring and mitigation strategies has become paramount.
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More:
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Detection of Turbulence Anomalies Using a Symbolic Classifier Algorithm in Airborne Quick Access Record (QAR) Data Analysis - Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

As the risks associated with air turbulence are intensified by climate change and the growth of the aviation industry, it has become imperative to monitor and mitigate these threats to ensure civil aviation safety. The eddy dissipation rate (EDR) has been established as the standard metric for...
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Runaway roll vortices were studied by Fujita and others:

Planes are not the only victims of the catch-all term “wind-shear:”
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Remembering the SCItanic, Alabama's Worst Boating Disaster

By Mike Bolton The massive storm that struck Mobile Bay last Saturday resulting in the deaths of five boaters and the continued search for one more presumed dead marked one of the deadliest days for boating in Alabama history. It...
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Here tornadoes were blamed:

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