There’s an airline pilot forum linked off another FR thread on AF447 today...on there, pilots were saying that the particular type of thunderstorm spawned in the area where AF447 was flying is very hard to spot on radar for some reason, much harder than the storms we get in the US. Something about if you’re pointing the radar straight ahead, you might not get a return, but if you tilt it down toward the bottom of the clouds, they show up better.
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Boortz thinks it was flying through a cell, but do cells tear apart planes?
No.