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Delta CRJ removed from Toronto runway, passengers offered $30,000 compensation  

Aerotime

Widespread speculation has hinted at an excessively hard landing, while others have suggested that a wind-shear event as the aircraft crossed the runway threshold may have been to blame. For those wondering how the Delta plane crash in Toronto took place, heres a new video of exactly what happened.

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Terminal Radar: It’s the Weather Pilots Don’t See

Flying Magazine

A Weather Systems Processor (WSP) has been added to many of the ASR-9s to measure Doppler wind velocity and thereby support detection of low-level wind shear events. seconds) out to 15 nm where the wind shear detection algorithms operate, and every minute at greater ranges. Not too shabby.

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