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JW411
One national airline decided to ignore this with a DC-10 on one of the runways at Boston. He took out most of the close-in approach lights and the aircraft was subsequently written-off.
If that's a reference to the 1973 Iberia accident, the NTSB attributed it to the captain's failure to recognise and arrest a windshear-induced increased RoD on approach in time to avoid hitting the lights.