willedoo Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 Tornado on Saturday in Turkey: 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 I've seen them off the south Coast of France. 2 or 3 miles of shore in the Mediterranean. Not a dissimilar locality to Turkey.. Australian Dust devils (with or without the dust) are a similar thing that can bring you undone on the ground or in the air. Doesn't matter what size of plane it is. Nev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onetrack Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 I still remember vividly the disastrous crash of the RFDS Piper Navaho, VH-KMS on 30th April 1981, when it collided with the Chaffers Gold Mine headframe upon approach to Kalgoorlie. The pilot elected to land after last light during a particularly bad storm over Kalgoorlie. These Goldfields Summer storms often contain violent squalls and mini-tornadoes. The pilot was qualified for night flying on single engine aircraft, but not on multi-engine aircraft. It is not known precisely what happened to VH-KMS, but at low level on the approach path, a violent squall of some type flipped the aircraft upside down. The pilot recovered skilfully, but ended up at very low level and off track, and a wing of the Navaho collided with the top of the Chaffers headframe, shearing it off and bringing the aircraft down. https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=27164 https://www.pressreader.com/australia/kalgoorlie-miner/20150512/281651073679197 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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