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Old 31st Jul 2017, 14:39
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Originally Posted by Bergerie1
It has happened before and will happen again. As others have said on this thread, aircraft weather radar is not very good at identifying hail. See this:-
Incidents and Accidents
I, like many others have a hard time believing that there was nothing painting on the radar. For this kind of hail you need a CB. A massive CB. CB's paint on most wx-radars I have seen.

But hey, I'm willing to learn.
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