In recent years several commercial aircraft accidents have occurred as an aircraft attempted landing in a thunderstorm cell. The horizontal and vertical windshear associated with the cell have been identified as the factors responsible for the accident. In addition to the wind shear encounter, several of these aircraft simultaneously penetrated a heavy rain cell. Heavy rain affects the aircraft by imparting a momentum penalty, and a drag penalty, due to the rain roughening of the airfoil. These penalties have been evaluated by a computer model that, when incorporated with a landing simulation program, was used to assess the relative influence of heavy rain versus wind shear. Using this model, an assessment was made of the influence of heavy rain on several wind shear attributed accidents.


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    Title :

    The effect of heavy rain on windshear attributed accidents


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Aerospace Sciences Meeting ; 1981 ; St. Louis, MO


    Publication date :

    1981-01-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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