http://www.hang-out.co.uk/index.php/flying/air-france-447-analysis-of-weather-conditions Chris Parker's Personal Blog - Flying and photography, mostly. And gadgets. Sun, 05 Sep 2010 11:11:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.hang-out.co.uk/index.php/flying/air-france-447-analysis-of-weather-conditions/comment-page-1#comment-280 chris Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:19:23 +0000 http://www.hang-out.co.uk/?p=625#comment-280 To avoid the weather system completely would have involved a deviaton of a couple of hundred miles and may have been impossible. The analysis points out that the aircraft was somewhat left of track which would suggest the crew was trying to avoid the largest cell on the image. To avoid the weather system completely would have involved a deviaton of a couple of hundred miles and may have been impossible. The analysis points out that the aircraft was somewhat left of track which would suggest the crew was trying to avoid the largest cell on the image.

]]> http://www.hang-out.co.uk/index.php/flying/air-france-447-analysis-of-weather-conditions/comment-page-1#comment-279 John Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:11:40 +0000 http://www.hang-out.co.uk/?p=625#comment-279 But how is it that in this day and age a modern airliner is not equipped with sufficient electronic information so the commander could choose to fly around it? But how is it that in this day and age a modern airliner is not equipped with sufficient electronic information so the commander could choose to fly around it?

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