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:
https://stormtrack.org/threads/32nd-anniversary-of-dl-191-crash.29852/
Some hope in CAT avoidance
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-method-unusual-air-turbulence-aviation.amp
More:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-024-3195-x
Runaway roll vortices were studied by Fujita and others:
https://www.ll.mit.edu/sites/defaul...continental-united-states-wolfson-ja-6120.pdf
Planes are not the only victims of the catch-all term “wind-shear:”
https://www.al.com/outdoors/2015/05/remembering_the_scitanic_alaba.htmlHere tornadoes were blamed:
https://www.weather.gov/top/1978_WhippoorwillTornadohttps://www.tornadotalk.com/whippoorwill-pomona-lake-ks-f1-tornado-june-17-1978/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
View: https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/1c3ina7/in_1996_7yearold_jessica_dubroff_was_attempting/
 
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