Originally Posted by thermostat
I take it you haven't seen the satellite photo with the flight path superimposed on It. It shows the extent of the storm system with the route going through the cells. Can you explain to us all just why the A330 went out of control after entering the system? Why did the F/O make a call to the F/As advising them of turbulence ? There are none so blind as those who will not see. Why would the plane go out of control if it hadn't been close to the coffin corner in turbulence? Why would all the ASIs stop working simultaneously and all those warnings begin (some of them false) if there was no supercooled water in the CBs to cause icing of the pitots? Please answer these questions for us.
A satellite photo is not what a crew will see on his wxr radar screen. The screen will show where the cells are and the crew will deviate from them.
In the meantime it is good airmanship to advise the back crew that we may well still encounter some turbulence.
AF447 was nowhere close to the coffin corner. According to the QRH table it was actually around 1500ft
below the optimum.
The issue is not supercooled water but more probably ice crystals.