it's bad enough that the media, the governing bodies (DOT, MOT, FAA etc...)
and sometimes our own employers try to blame the crew in events like this, I think that, at least, fellow pilots should get the facts straight before judging and give the benefit of the doubt, IMHO

Why? Row 13 won't crash without the rest of the aircraft. :D

.....but it WILL crash later.

Who let the Guvnor out of jail? :yuk:

Check the dates, this thread has been revived from 2001!

Can we see hail on radar? We have operated near (sometimes thirty miles or more from downwind side) thunderstorms every spring and summer-in the southern and eastern US. When I was an FO it might have been only once, but can't remember any Captain ever describing what hail looks like on radar, unless it looks like water. Somewhere I read that it has been detected upwind of certain huge thunderstorms.

On a color radar, would it be yellow or red? How does it look with the naked eye, like a mist? :uhoh: