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I was living in Texas at the time of Flight 191. I was no fan of the IBM PC but it was still gut-wrenching to hear that the father of the machine had been kille
by dreamcompiler 2y ago
I was living in Texas at the time of Flight 191. I was no fan of the IBM PC but it was still gut-wrenching to hear that the father of the machine had been killed.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Air_Lines_Flight_191 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Air_Lines_Flight_191
This was the crash that brought the term "microburst" into the national consciousness.
- Trailing5650 2y agoA fascinating training video provided to American Airlines pilots discussing windshear and microbursts. Flight 191 is an example used https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxXwqAm1a-Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxXwqAm1a-Y
- ordu 2y agoKyra Dempsey wrote about it. https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/water-wind-and-fire-the-crash-of-delta-air-lines-flight-191-25e7375620b3 https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/water-wind-and-fire-the-...
- mixmastamyk 2y agoWow, the wiki page is nearly as good a read as the professionally written article. I broke the IBM-related text under the Passengers section out to its own paragraph, as it changes from statistics to specifics. Hopefully will remain that way.