Originally Posted by
peekay4
That climb request to FL380 "to avoid weather" has been puzzling me.
(begin speculation)By deviating left, they inadvertently flew into a newly developing CB with very powerful updrafts. The plane is violently pushed up, nose very high, and quickly rolled to one side; groundspeed rapidly drops.
(end speculation)
I don't fly the bus so I may have the terminology wrong here, but in normal law, wouldn't the high angle of attack and high angle of bank protection prevent this from happening?