thermostat :
I will forever state that they should never have entered the CB in the first place.... Why else would trained pilots fly through the red area of a CB ? (see the satellite Wx photo)
Thermostat : please stop confusing the "
red areas" on the "
satellite Wx photos" with convective cells as they appear on "our" radars.
There was obviously
NO "red wall" 80 Nm ahead when the captain went to rest.
thermostat :
I still feel that the radar was not working.
There is no suggestion, so far, that the radar was "
not working".
Please do not forget :
1) they went through a lot of "
red satellite photo Wx area" without too much problem before starting to deviate ;
2) 20' before, the LH 744 deviated only 10 miles for weather ;
3) see a post above. A 744 captain flew the same route during the same night and stated "no weather to speak about....".
IMHO, they obviously flew into clouds and encountered
THE conditions leading to AA pitots freeze.
In the months before the accident, dozens of AA pitots freezes happened.
Do you, seriously, believe
ALL these crews flew straight into "
red wall(s)" ?