Denver Airport Gets Wind Shear Detectors
Stapleton International Airport on Friday began hooking up a newly improved radar system to detect wind shear, which has been blamed for plane crashes that have killed more than 650 people since 1972.
The device, called a terminal Doppler weather radar, is to be installed at 47 airports nationwide beginning in 1992. Similar devices have been tested at Stapleton in the last two summers and are credited with preventing jetliner crashes from microbursts--small storms with wind that can exceed hurricane force--officials said.
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