A USAir DC-9 is on its way to Charlotte, North Carolina when it crashes miles from the airport. Find out how this flight crashes due to weather in the final part in our weather phenomena series. 2020 © Anchor FM Inc. All rights reserved.

Thanks to our friends Brennan and Brendan for guesting for this episode!

Micro-burst Weather Series Episode 4

Photo Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USAir_Flight_1016

https://medium.com/@admiralcloudberg/an-illusion-of-normalcy-the-crash-of-usair-flight-1016-30e4e69ab788

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USAir_Flight_1016_(3).jpg

Research Sources:

https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AAR9503.pdf

“Storming Out.” Air Disasters, season 11, episode 6, Smithsonian Channel, 4 Nov. 2018.