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Old Dec 23, 2011 | 1:03 pm
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How windy was it that day? Mechanical turbulence is caused by smooth air hitting things on the ground (buildings / hills / trees etc.)... Maybe it was a gust?

I'm pretty the confident the E75 pilot would have aimed for a touch-down point after where the DC-10 touched-down (i.e., higher than the vortices), and that ATC had provided sufficient spacing between the heavy and the E75.

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