Nice squall line -- THANKS for that image
SaturnV -- Thanks for that 23z radar image. AND thanks for posting the B777's TRACK, showing that pilots had TURNED (?perhaps a deviation around TRW displayed on the ship's Wx-Radar ?).
The mishap happened about one-hour later than that 23z Radar image. The B777 was south EAST of Kansas City at 1914cdt (21st/0014z).
Surface obs' suggest the squall line was passing MCI more than an hour before it pushed over KSZL. With that typical squall line there, I wouldn't try to penetrate in the lower altitudes, for fear of too many adjacent-cells composing the LINE of TRWs. Be easier just to keep laterally far from cells.
No Cockpit Image Recorder onboard to show just what the pilots observed on their Wx-Radar displays. Since today's airliners now have ONBOARD internet, ??? I wonder if now pilots can use the real-time web-display of the midwest thunderstorms, far before ship's Wx-Radar begins to show the 160mn display??? [Maybe only the passengers get to see the EAX dopplar composite on their laptops, pilots still must not use any modern real-time ground-based radar images for planning TRW-avoidance.]
Last edited by IGh; 23rd Jul 2010 at 15:36.