Turkish Airport Tornado

[willedoo]

Tornado on Saturday in Turkey:

 

 

 

 

 

[facthunter]

 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

 

 

[onetrack]

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