Page started: June 18, 2025. Page edited: July 12, 2025.
In the coming months I intend to work on this page.
Urban myth
A story or statement that is not true but is often repeated, and believed by many to be true.
dictionary.cambridge.org
Windshear is not a cause (nor a contributing factor) of the Martinair crash in Faro. But, in public perception it still is.
About this page
After all these years (decades even) and information on the crash and its causes I never expected this page to be necessary.
After consulting several pages on the crash (also Wikipedia), I noticed in June 2025 that the untruth of (unexpected) windshear as cause of the crash still leads a tenacious life.
This poses the threat that generative artificial intelligence like ChatGPT will act as an amplifying echo chamber for this misinformation.
With this page I hope to inform readers better and hopefully encourage web-administrators to amend their text.
Intended topics in this page:
Origin of the windshear-myth
– Martin Schröder, day after the crash in press-conference with Dutch Minister of Transport
– deliberate imagery !?!
From the official investigation report (1994)
– probable causes and contributing factors
– letter of the NTSB
Anglo Portuguese News, dec 21, 1995:
Dutch organisation alleges cover-up of cause of ’92 Faro air crash
Verdict court of The Hague (2020)
– analysis of verdict
– May 2021, Martin Schröder seems not to accept the court’s verdict on errors by his pilots