sage

Jan 16 2009, 07:47 PM

On the taxi-out in Boston, they ((the pilots of US Airways 6805)) waited at the runway's hold-short line, where Miller looked up to watch a United Boeing 767 take off, United Flight 175. The final weight and balance calculations from dispatch came over the ACARS at 8:05, and with that in hand, the crew was ready to fly. Wide-body aircraft produce especially powerful wingtip vortices - horizontal, tornado-like winds off the ends of the wings - which require time to dissipate before other aircraft can take off, so he waited the required three minutes after United 175 departed before he received his takeoff clearance.


Wide-body aircraft produce especially powerful wingtip vortices - horizontal, tornado-like winds off the ends of the wings - which require time to dissipate



so where is the evidence of this when the plane strikes the tower, surely with the explosion we would see vortices from these tornado like winds, especially as the plane was travelling at its maximum speed of 530+knots, doesnt that mean the tornado like winds from the wingtips would be as big as they get, but we dont notice them, why?