<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Air_Lines_Flight_66" id="mwAUk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Eastern Air Lines Flight 66">Eastern Air Lines Flight 66</a> encounters severe wind shear and crashes on final approach to New York's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_International_Airport" id="mwAUo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="John F. Kennedy International Airport">JFK Airport</a> killing 113 of the 124 passengers on board, making it the deadliest U.S. plane crash at the time. This accident led to decades of research into downburst and microburst phenomena and their effects on aircraft.<sup about="#mwt61" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-10"}}' id="cite_ref-10" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./June_24#cite_note-10" id="mwAUs" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 10;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAUw">[10]</span></a></sup>
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