I am following this thread like the first A447 Thread from the very beginning. I am amazed how this speculation of entering a "monster CB" is beeing posted in a nearly constant frequence. Untill now there is no evidence for this.
I have seen other maps showing A447 as already outside the weather at 0214UTC. As far as I have seen no mention to entering a CB has been written in the BEA report.
With a difference of about 20 minutes LH507 did fly the same AWY and only diverted by 10NM, if I remember well. Many of you were claiming, that this 'monster CB' would have to be avoided by a lot more.
I do belive only the DFDR could tell us that part of the story.
I personally saw what hapened to the horizontal stabilizer. I can imagine that the airbus 330 might not be quite as robust.
I really do have a problem with statements like this. I would not think we are comparing planes here. Are you aerospace engineer to have such a strong oppinion about the structural strenght of the A330's tailplane?
You may delete this, but I had to write this.......