Yes, that can happen, but not if the pilot has selected takeoff power in time.
Wind shear will not defeat an aircraft at flying speed with full power.
Chris
> On 4 Aug 16, at 18:58, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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 . . .
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