Originally Posted by ILS27L
Definitely serious weather but absolutely average and forecasted for the area and they were flying through it or very close to it, this alone would have never brought the plane down. We all know this.
We don't, flying through very
serious weather can bring aircraft down if control is lost - fact - which is why a/c have weather radar and pilots everywhere avoid the worst, even with fully operational air data displays - because you just don't know what is inside! Nature is not just incredibly powerful, but incredibly unpredicatble...