Plane Crash History 12 Plane Crashes That Changed Aviation
Aug 04, 2017· Upgrade: Downdraft detection. Lightning flashed around the plane at 800 ft., and the jetliner encountered a microburst wind shear—a strong downdraft and abrupt shift in the wind that caused the plane to lose 54 knots of airspeed in a few seconds. Sinking rapidly, the L1011 hit the ground about a mile short of the runway and bounced across a highway,...