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Re: [OM] OT: Dubai 777 Crash

Subject: Re: [OM] OT: Dubai 777 Crash
From: Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2016 10:58:45 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
     We had a case of wind shear at Dallas/Ft. Worth many years ago that 
slammed a large passenger aircraft into the threshold.

>
>Piers, I don’t believe that there is any windshear in the world that 
>would prevent a go-around.  There have been situations of rotor action 
>whose down draughts caused aircraft to plunge from height (I think that 
>it has happened west of Inverness), but windshear is by its nature 
>short-lived and would normally affect only an aircraft at low speed and 
>low power.
>
>I’ll never say “never”, of course . . . 
>


Chris

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     - Hunter S. Thompson
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