A few hours before my flight I was watching TV and learnt about that Air France jet. The first suggestions were that it ran into a tropical storm. Then they added that it met with heavy turbulence AND got hit by a lightning. Now I'm reading that the Airbus got into an air gap due to the storm.
Can anyone explain to me: why-why-WHY do they keep flying INTO the storm at all? Haven't they got a weather report in front of them? Did any carrier lately cancel a single flight due to dangerous weather conditions? It appears that, good weather or not, they keep flying anyway.
I recall a similar accident with a Russian passenger jet: the pilot was trying to fly OVER the storm and crashed. He didn't want to turn away, because that would mean losses to the air company, wage cuts etc.
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