Lockheed L-1011 TriStar crash, Aug 2, 1985 (135 killed)
Lockheed L-1011 TriStar accident on August 2, 1985 near Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, United States with 135 fatalities. Cause: The NTSB attributed the...
- Date: August 2, 1985
- Aircraft: Lockheed L-1011 TriStar
- Location: Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, United States
- Fatalities: 135
- Phase of flight: Approach and landing
- Cause: The NTSB attributed the crash to the flightcrew deciding to start and continue the approach into a thunderstorm cell, the lack of guidelines, procedures and training for low altitude windshear, and the lack of real time windshear hazard information.
Delta Air Lines Flight 191, an L-1011 TriStar, encountered microburst windshear on approach to runway 17L at Dallas/Fort Worth on 2 August 1985. It touched down short of the runway, struck a car and airport water tanks and broke apart in a fire. 134 of the 163 people aboard died, along with one person on the ground.