Word: shears
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Shear Madness. Ongoing. Charles Playhouse,Warrenton St., Boston...
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...