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First Officer James P. Hayes, who was flying the DC-9, had been warned of wind shear in the area of Charlotte-Douglas International Airport. But Hayes said he had no idea he was so near the sudden, dangerous shift in wind speed and direction caused by a downward rush of cooled...
...pilots said they followed standard wind shear procedure: turning the nose up and using full power. Greenlee, 38, has 9,100 hours of flying time, while Hayes, 41, has 13,000 hours...
Cockpit voice recordings released by the Federal Aviation Administration showed that Greenlee and Hayes got two wind shear warnings but both missed an all-points wind shear alert just seconds before the crash...
...wind shear that hit the plane was one of the strongest ever recorded, a NASA aeronautics engineer, Dr. Fred Proctor, told The Charlotte Observer...
...that 40 years ago might have languished for a while in jazz clubs and coffeehouses now move in nanoseconds from the dance clubs and gangsta corners. Through MTV and the trendier magazines, and whatever other express routes the mass media command, they get passed over to mass-marketers who shear off the rough edges and ship them to the malls. So body piercing and ambient technomusic and performance art and couture motorcycle boots and the huggie drug Ecstasy are shipped overnight throughout the merchandise mart that is America...