The Delta Air Lines Flight 191 accident marked the 3rd event between 19 in which more than 100 fatalities occurred in an aircraft incident due to a microburst in the United States. The table below lists several aircraft incidents in which weather played a major role or was the direct cause for the loss of life and/or the loss of the airplane. For information on an intense, but slightly larger downburst, see macroburst. Today we know this intense, localized downburst as a microburst, a weather phenomenon that was not well understood at the time of the accident.
The National Transportation Safety Board's (NTSB) Accident Board determined that the cause of the incident was wind-shear associated with an intense thunderstorm downdraft that occurred at the north end of the airport along runway 17 Left (17L). The Delta Air Lines Flight 191 airplane crash at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) occurred around 6:05 P.M.
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