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Contact me via @Admiral_Cloudberg on Reddit, @KyraCloudy on Twitter, or by email at kyracloudy97@gmail.com. One fatality, a passenger who initially survived the crash but died 9 days later, was officially recorded by the NTSB as a "nonfatal" injury. At the same time, a downdraft slammed it from above, and their rate of descent more than doubled from 750 feet per minute to 1,650. Thus the controllers believed that the wind speed was moderate and that the wind was aligned perfectly for landing on runway 22L; the computer program told them runway 22L was the ideal runway to use; and changing the runway on short notice would cause major delays and increase their already high workload as they maneuvered all the inbound airplanes over to the new approach path while ensuring they maintained a safe distance from one another. Untapped New York unearths New York Citys secrets and hidden gems. On that flight the pilots reacted quickly by pitching the nose up and applying max power, but even so they only barely managed to avoid a crash. And although these reforms didnt totally eliminate the risk of wind shear accidents, without the changes even more lives surely would have been lost. BOSTON It was a beautiful fall day with scattered clouds on the evening of October 4, 1960 as Eastern Airlines Flight 375 lined up to take off from runway 9 at Boston Logan Airport. Flight 66 had 124 occupants, including eight crew members. noon when two airplanes approaching John F. Kennedy Airport (JFK) The circumstances leading to the accident shared a number of similarities with those faced by Eastern 66.) Air traffic control then radioed Flight 663 a similar advisory: at 2 o'clock, five miles away traveling, below Flight 663's position. Featured in the documentaryMr. Tornado are scientists like Roger Wakimoto, who studied under Dr. Fujita and specializes in severe convective storms; Robert F. Abbey, Jr., first as Director of Meteorology research for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; Nancy Mathis,author of Storm Warning: The Story of a Killer Tornado; Gregory S. Forbes,The Weather Channels severe weather expert; and Mark Levine, author of F5: Devastation, Survival. At 15:57, flight 902 flew into the same thunderstorm transited by Flying Tiger Line flight 161 two minutes earlier, this time at an even lower altitude. Some even claimed they saw the plane get struck by lightning. There wasnt enough time to stop the wind shear from pushing the plane straight into the ground. 11. The flight responded, "Affirmative." Preoccupation with a malfunction of the nose landing gear position indicating system distracted the crew's attention from the instruments and allowed the descent to go unnoticed.