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
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
- Hunter S. Thompson
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