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Old 25th Jun 2009, 05:22
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Capt Kremin
 
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I agree.

The fact that the aircraft involved was an A330 is only of significance to the ignorant... ladies and gentlemen of the press; that means you.

The Wx radar on the the A330 is no better or worse than any other LH QF aircraft. (Except for the radar that was delivered on the ex-BA 767's which was truly atrocious.)

The naming of the Captain by QF media is being addressed by AIPA, it should never have happened and the person responsible needs a swift kick for it.

Apart from that it appears to be a "routine" turbulence incident caused by a moonless night and a convective cloud that showed up poorly on the Wx radar or was masked by terrain; it happens.

As always in these incidents, the people who got hurt are the people who routinely buckle up in their Hyundai Excel doing 60 kph going to the corner shop, but for some reason don't seem to feel the need to do so in a metal tube barrelling through the sky at 1000kph.
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