A number of planes have crashed because of wake turbulence over the years.

Two private aircraft crashes were blamed on wake turbulence emanating from 757s.

The boundary layer generates wake turbulence after a short interval.

The heavy fighter rocked slightly - only the pilot would have noticed - from the larger plane's wake turbulence.

They are a hazard to other aircraft, known as wake turbulence.

A moment later, the VC-137 bounced through their wake turbulence.

The big wide-bodies left behind wake turbulence that could be very dangerous.

A major component of wake turbulence is the wingtip vortices.

The aircraft was followed a Boeing 757 for landing, became caught in its wake turbulence, rolled into a deep descent and crashed.

As the PC-12 hit the wake turbulence, it suddenly rolled to the left and began to turn upside down.