There was a jet airliner that flew way too close behind a jumbo jet. The jumbo jet produced 200 MPH horizontal tornadoes (wake vortices) at its wingtips, which spread out. They hit the other plane at 60-80% of their original strength. This type of turbulence can cause vertical accelerations (up and down bumps) of up to 10 G.
The rotating vortices caused the plane to suddenly jolt sideways, left and right. The (sideways) G loads slowly increased, from 0.3 G sideways to 0.9 G right before the tail fin of the plane broke off causing it to go into a high G flat spin that tore off the engines. The time between the turbulence striking and the tail ripping off was about 8 seconds. Vertical loads on the plane before breakup were +2.1 G. The plane was climbing at 2,000 feet when the tail fin snapped off. All 250+ on board died.
What would this of felt like? Would everyone have been terrified, would some have found it fun? Would it of felt like a rollercoaster ride?
Submitted November 14, 2020 at 05:10AM by Interesting_Ad2110 https://ift.tt/3lxCau1