Originally Posted by
Chris Scott
People speculate on why the crew allowed the aeroplane to fly into a Cb, but we have as yet no proof that it did, let alone that they did.
Don't you find the evidence posted by BEA compelling? It is pretty clear that AF459 could see a similar picture to that portrayed and took evasive action.
Flight Paths of Flight AF 447 and of the flights that crossed the zone around the same time
http://www.bea.aero/fr/enquetes/vol.....03h45.p14.avi
ELY010 also appears to have crossed "red" but maybe the cloud picture had moved a bit by then, but is it possible AF447 could see a gap? There is the 3NM offset to suggest a small deviation, maybe to find shortest crossing?
Last edited by sensor_validation; 10th May 2011 at 13:10.