I’ve experienced what can only have been a microburst event in Central America.
A very sobering thing and although it happened some forty years ago in my early career it remains a disturbing memory. The aircraft kept descending very rapidly despite full power and flaring to min power speed. We lost about 1,000 feet and came out of extremely heavy rain only a couple of hundred feet above the jungle tree tops. As soon as we came out of the rain the aircraft began climbing like a dingbat,
I came close to making headlines with that one, especially bearing in mind that a very senior army officer was one of the passengers. We turned back to the departure point (a jungle camp) and stayed the night!