The Passenger Jet That Flew Into A Tornado | NLM City Hopper Flight 431

Donations are never expected but appreciated: paypal.me/miniaircrash Join My Discord: https://discord.gg/rhDgbc9 Fokker Image:Christian Volpati - http://www.airlinefan.com/airline-photos/9753121/NLM/Fokker/F28/PH-CHI/ Mesocylone Image: Michael Graf - Own work Mesocylone Line Drawings: Vanessa Ezekowitz Mesocyclone Radar Image:Pedro Spoladore - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image: Greensburg3_small.gif Crash Images: Public Domain This is the story of NLM city hopper flight 431, on the 6th of october 1981 a Fokker F28 regional jet was to fly from rotterdam to hamburg with a stopover in eindhoven. By the way youtube please don't demonetize me for the name of the plane, that's literally what its called. Speaking of what the plane was called, this particular F28 was called eindhoven after the city that it was about to fly to. On that day the plane had 17 occupants for the short flight to eindhoven from rotterdam. The weather on the 6th of october wasnt too good, a depression over ireland was really messing up the weather systems over the netherlands. A weather system moved over the country over the course of the day. Cold and warm air mixed together creating some nasty weather that day. it wasn't the best day for flying but nothing seemed to be out of the ordinary just yet By 3:20 PM GMT, the crew had their first weather briefing. They were told of a thunderstorm that was located southeast of rotterdam. It was something that they had to keep their eye on as they climbed out of the airport. The weather report said that the weather system would pass over the airport at about 4:00 PM GMT with winds ranging from 15 knots to 25 knots. Nothing to worry about. At 4:04 pm the plane took off, right after takeoff the plane banked to the south over the city. As they did they checked the weather, they noticed some very intense activity on the weather radar and asked for a change in course to avoid the worst of the weather. The plane sped up to 230 knots as it started to enter the outskirts of the storm. They were aiming for a break in the clouds, they hoped that the small opening in the weather would keep them away from the worst of it. As the plane waded further and further into the weather system the plane started to be buffeted by strong winds from either side. As flight 431 passed the river the hollands diep it had climbed to 3000 feet and by that point the turbulence had gotten much worse. The plane was experiencing G forces of upto 6.8 Gs The small plane held out for as long as it could, on one of these encounters winds pushed the right wing of the plane up then the right wing was pushed down by the turbulence. With so much force that the right hand wing broke off. An intact plane had entered the storm cell and a broken one emerged from it. The plane came down near the town of moerdijk, no one onboard survived. Saying that flight 431 had flown into some turbulence is an understatement. What they experienced was something much more violent , something that wasnt that well understood at that time. They had flown into a meso cyclone or in other words a tornado. In fact right after the crash a picture of a tornado touching down was captured by a resident. Before we can understand how a passenger jet flew head first into a tornado we need to understand how a tornado could form in such a way that no one could detect it. A Meso cyclone is basically a giant vortex of roating air, and it all starts with shear. On that day there were two fonts a cold front and a warm front, this caused winds to blow in two different

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