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Re: [OM] OT: Dubai 777 Crash

Subject: Re: [OM] OT: Dubai 777 Crash
From: ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2016 06:02:55 +0100
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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