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Old 20th Aug 2015, 17:39
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Out of my league, but 737er's comments are in agreement with the accident report Megan referenced:

"The report concluded that lowering the pitch attitude eliminated the altitude margin necessary to escape the wind shear."

"Flight 1016 could have overcome the wind-shear encounter if the flight crew had executed the wind-shear escape maneuver (maximum effective pitch attitude and maximum ‘firewall’ power) immediately after the initial airspeed decay."

The microburst video was most interesting- exactly as described in text, but words don't compare with seeing it happening.
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