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The Invisible Kill: How a Wind Shear Turned Routine Landing Deadly
The Invisible Kill: How a Wind Shear Turned Routine Landing Deadly
The calm of a routine descent hid an invisible menace: at 6:06:05 PM a Lockheed L-1011 crossed a Texas highway at rooftop level traveling over 200 miles per hour, and 137 people died in eight seconds - but a Learjet that passed the same storm three minutes earlier landed without a scratch. What was the storm hiding that the radar, pilots, and controllers could all see yet still could not predict?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events leading up to Delta Air Lines Flight 191’s final seconds, the crew’s experience, and…
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