wallybird7, you are suggesting that they deliberately flew into a defined thunderstorm? Defined by who? and when?
From a few pages back in this thread, mm43's corrected image:
IMO, neither the Lufthansa nor the Iberia flights deviated enough to take them out of the bright green. (I concede I am using a static image to describe a dynamic situation, but the BEA has chosen not to release the precise path of the deviations by those two flights so one can't map against different satellite imagery.) AF459 deviated enough to the right to possibly avoid the bright green.
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Do you have knowledge of the crew of AF447 adjusting the tilt and gain of their radar as AF 459 did, and still proceeding on the track?