AF447 wreckage found

[SaturnV]

Thank you Turbine D.

Wallybird7, nearly three weeks ago there was a rather robust discussion in this forum on what they flew into. Rather than my continuing to try to synopsize and synthesize the various views expressed, perhaps the better reply would be to give you links to many of the relevant posts.

http://www.pprune.org/6537291-post1849.html

http://www.pprune.org/6538283-post1865.html

http://www.pprune.org/6538679-post1870.html

http://www.pprune.org/6538743-post1871.html

http://www.pprune.org/6538901-post1875.html

http://www.pprune.org/6538911-post1876.html

http://www.pprune.org/6539033-post1878.html

http://www.pprune.org/6539051-post1880.html

http://www.pprune.org/6539466-post1885.html

http://www.pprune.org/6539692-post1889.html

You may view the failure of the crew in not deviating sooner to be irresponsible, but I think most/all of the earlier posters on the subject of a track through an ITCZ meso-convective system would agree there still is far too little information to form judgments with regard to culpability.

As Vasquez summarized last month,

Tropical storm complexes identical to or stronger than this one [the MCS on June 1] have probably been crossed hundreds or thousands of times over the years by other flights without serious incident, including ascents and descents through critical icing zones in tropical showers.