Windshear Case Study on event at Denver, Colorado 11 July 1988

Windshear Case Study on event at Denver, Colorado 11 July 1988

Publication info
Author
FAA
Category
Weather Publications

This windshear case study outlines the technical details of the encounter, as well as describes insights gained from this confrontation that should be applied to future investigations of aircraft encountering windshear. This study summarizes information from several sources including flight crew comments, air traffic control operations and surveillance radar data, flight data recorders, data from TDWR and the Low-Level Wind Shear Alert System (LLWAS), technical details of the event meteorology, and data from the Terminal Area Simulation System (TASS).

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