To: traumer
”These indicate that the pilot reported hitting tropical turbulence at 3am (BST), shortly before reaching Senegalese airspace. It said the plane had passed through tall, dense cumulonimbus thunderclouds.”
Global warming!
5 posted on
06/04/2009 1:32:00 PM PDT by
Steve Van Doorn
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To: Steve Van Doorn
Global warming! If you think that's a joke, think again.
10 posted on
06/04/2009 1:34:31 PM PDT by
Izzy Dunne
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To: Steve Van Doorn
Passing through tall, dense cumulonimbus thunderclouds is not an intelligent strategy in any passenger aircraft. The big question is "why did the pilots not divert
around the thunderstorm?"It was night-time but their weather radar would have warned them of the thuderstorm, even if they didn't see the lightening strikes.
89 posted on
06/04/2009 3:02:19 PM PDT by
expatpat
To: Steve Van Doorn
Passing through tall, dense cumulonimbus thunderclouds is not an intelligent strategy in any passenger aircraft. The big question is "why did the pilots not divert
around the thunderstorm?"
It was night-time but their weather radar would have warned them of the thuderstorm, even if they didn't see the lightening strikes.
93 posted on
06/04/2009 3:03:42 PM PDT by
expatpat
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