Memrytter, every medias speak about the ITCZ Cbs being the main cause of the accident, this is completely stupid, I base my point of view from my own experience and from what all my collegues think about that, some of them have long haul experience around the ITCZ and they all reckon than those CB ara avoidable as any CBs on the globe, moreover, the flight plan is studied together with the weather forcast before departure. There are lots of bull
said by the french to the medias.
@teddy robinson, yes I flew for swiftair many years ago,since then, I have been flying in a skyteam spanish airline, not to name it. I still have some friends at swiftair, and I know people who personnaly knew the MD83 crew, both the FO and captain were known to be professionals and very experienced.