Posted on 11/01/08
The mountain wave
When a British Boeing 707 broke apart in midair near Tokyo in 1966, killing everyone aboard, investigators quickly realized the airplane had flown into what's known as a mountain wave - an invisible, powerful series of ripples that form downwind of a mountain. A jet fighter that flew into the area to look for the wreckage hit turbulence that registered nine times the force of gravity on a cockpit meter.
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