Delta Air Lines Flight 191, Lockheed L-1011 TriStar airplane, crashes at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport during a landing approach. on August 2, 1985. The cause of the accident was determined to be an intense, localized downburst (microburst), a weather phenomenon not well understood at the time.
Of the 163 persons aboard, 136 were killed in addition to one person hit on the ground. Two passengers died more than 30 days after the accident as a result of their injuries. More