The safety case for the provision of live satellite data showing the position, extent, and track of major convective events such as the weather northeast of Ouagadougou, kindly illustrated by a previous poster, grows ever stronger.
In fact, it is urgent.
I said in 2009, after AF447, that the situation where passengers in the cabin, with access to wi-fi inflight, can see the "strategic" picture of these major convective systems, whereas the flight crew up front only have access to the "tactical" weather radar.
The more information one has to hand, the better the quality of the decision making.
The silence of the regulators is deafening.