wind check
when you find a plane that has crashed , and at the time it went missing there was a giant thunderstorm, guessing the wx is a factor is not really that dumb.
hours don't mean much. we don't know what happened for sure and I would like to know if the wx radar was working properly.
the effects of thunderstorms can be realized dozens of miles from the actual cloud. Hail, even severe or extreme turbulence.
We shall see
There are thousands and thousands of airliners everywhere in the world that fly around this kind of weather. When you have a 20'000+ hours experience in the cockpit, you do know how to check the flight plan route and weather report before departure and you know how to avoid the red cells on-route. Maybe there was an issue with the wx radar, you are absolutely right, and that wouldn´t be surprising from a Swiftair aircraft. However, if weather can indeed be the main cause of air disasters during the take off and landing phases, it is very unlikely to put a modern airliner down from FL300.
Now there is something that the french government is trying to hide from the beginning, there was a Hezbollah leader on board the flight plus 33 french soldiers including a couple of commanders from the french army.
There are also some parts of the wreckage more than 10 kilometers from the crash site which means the airplane would have exploded in the air.