Delta 191 : the Dallas experience.
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TextLanguage: ENG Publication details: JUL 1992Description: 5 pSubject: The August heat in Texas is unforgiving, and on August 2, 1985, it hung like a blanket over Dallas/Ft. Worth International Airport (DFW), a 20th-century megastructure built on a wide-open expanse of Texas prairie. Far above the airport, the heat mixed with incoming rain clouds to create violent thunderstorms full of wind shears and microbursts. Delta Airlines flight 191 flew into the heat of that August afternoon, into the thunderstorms and, finally, into the ground itself. When the plane completed its cartwheel across the tarmac, it had broken in two, sheared off a nearby water tower and left 137 people dead. This was one of the worst airline disasters in history, and the lessons it taught those involved in emergency response in the area were both shocking and difficult. The tragedy was a test of both the human and organisational sides of disaster relief
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Reprinted from Emergency Medical Services; p. 47-51
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The August heat in Texas is unforgiving, and on August 2, 1985, it hung like a blanket over Dallas/Ft. Worth International Airport (DFW), a 20th-century megastructure built on a wide-open expanse of Texas prairie. Far above the airport, the heat mixed with incoming rain clouds to create violent thunderstorms full of wind shears and microbursts. Delta Airlines flight 191 flew into the heat of that August afternoon, into the thunderstorms and, finally, into the ground itself. When the plane completed its cartwheel across the tarmac, it had broken in two, sheared off a nearby water tower and left 137 people dead. This was one of the worst airline disasters in history, and the lessons it taught those involved in emergency response in the area were both shocking and difficult. The tragedy was a test of both the human and organisational sides of disaster relief
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