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by dreamcompiler 742 days 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

This was the crash that brought the term "microburst" into the national consciousness.

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A 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
Wow, 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.