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Accident investigation
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
|---|---|
| Author | Laynor, William G. Bud |
| Copyright Year | 1987 |
| Description | The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has attributed wind shear as a cause or contributing factor in 15 accidents involving transport-categroy airplanes since 1970. Nine of these were nonfatal; but the other six accounted for 440 lives. Five of the fatal accidents and seven of the nonfatal accidents involved encounters with convective downbursts or microbursts. Of other accidents, two which were nonfatal were encounters with a frontal system shear, and one which was fatal was the result of a terrain induced wind shear. These accidents are discussed with reference to helping the aircraft to avoid the wind shear or if impossible to help the pilot to get through the wind shear. |
| File Size | 245101 |
| Page Count | 4 |
| File Format | |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19870015852 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t6n061m60 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1987-07-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Air Transportation And Safety Weather Flight Recorders Airborne Equipment Aircraft Accident Investigation Microbursts Meteorology Warning Systems Automatic Flight Control Wind Shear Fronts Meteorology Pilot Training Flight Simulation Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports ServerĀ (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |