The 1986 crash of USAir Flight 499 is a winter operations case study: tailwind restrictions, hydroplaning risk, and the ...

Where do you fly when the windsock is dead calm?

A pilot who aborted a landing at an Essex airfield blamed a strong tailwind for causing the aircraft to crash, investigators have reported. An unnamed passenger in the light aircraft attempting to ...

Exposing a light plane to a tailwind at a private airfield at Tomahawk resulted in its approach being "too high and fast" causing a crash that claimed the life of experienced aviator Sandra Southwell, ...