BOAC, without the complete transcript, we don't know the extent of any extraneous conversation.
The CVR record begins shortly after midnight, and the only apparent observation with respect to external weather that's noted from the start of the CVR until after 0200 is when overflying the coast at Natal, where the captain remarks that the weather has been good.
There apparently is no discussion by the flight crew of the message from dispatch received at 0030 alerting them of Cbs between SALPU and TASIL. (The third interim report again specifically notes this message.) The range of the radar is reset after the SELCAL check at 0135, but it is left in CAL mode.
Last edited by SaturnV; 1st Aug 2011 at 12:15.