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Investigators are examining wind shear—a violent, sudden shift in wind velocity or direction—as a factor in the Mar. 23 crash of a FedEx MD-11F at Tokyo Narita, the airport’s first fatal accident ...

Aviation's understanding of dangerous low-level wind shear evolved from initial ignorance to specific recognition through a series of accidents in the 1960s and 1970s. Dr. Ted Fujita's investigation ...

Japanese meteorologists warned of a risk of wind shear at Tokyo Narita Airport the night before a Fedex MD-11 crashed on landing, killing the two crew members on board. Winds were reaching 72 km/h (39 ...

At cruising altitude, the sky outside the window looks empty and still. But in the narrow atmospheric band where most commercial flights travel — the boundary between the upper troposphere and lower ...

An Airbus A380 is seen from a rare overhead angle as it encounters wind shear during approach. The footage captures the giant ...

Graphic of an aircraft encountering microbursts during takeoff and approach. Generally an aircraft would first be exposed to increasing head wind which brings higher airspeed and leads to increased ...

Wind shear is defined as the change in wind speed, wind direction, or both, over some distance. You may have heard airplane pilots talk about turbulence and warn passengers that they’re in for a bumpy ...

The Civil Aviation Administration (CAA) yesterday announced Taiwan’s first domestically developed aviation weather system, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Weather forecasters talk about wind shear a lot during hurricane season, but what exactly is it? I teach meteorology at Georgia ...