[kach22i]

Originally Posted by KNS

Motion - most larger aircraft/jets have weather radar to let them know where the nasty stuff is and to avoid it.

So.......... someone on the flight crew failed to alter the pilot of these conditions?

EDIT: One of the comments from the opening link:

Unimpressed67
7 hours ago


Professional pilots with Radar Equipped airplanes don't fly into storms with baseball sized hail. PERIOD! No chance, no way, no how. After their incomprehensible and ridiculous decision to enter those conditions, the crew did a decent job of getting the plane back. I would imagine the autopilot was coupled until at least 50 feet. I certainly wouldn't call the Captain a hero. In the US he would likely be violated by the FAA for unsafe operation of the aircraft. It's hard to convey the magnitude of his gross negligence to non-pilots. I don't know who or what the "locator" is that he blames for not seeing the hail, but the onboard aircraft radar would absolutely have painted hail of that size. There simply is no excuse for that level of poor decision making.*

Don't believe me? How many other planes were damaged by this "undetectable" hailstorm?"*

retiredsf
4 hours ago


Mike. Wrong. The Aircraft is equipped with sufficient equipment to detect the storm.
I managed aviation projects with Eastern European pilots. They are not raised in a safety culture. They are raised to get it done and save the company money. A toxic situation .
This was an accident waiting to happen, Airbus saved the passengers when a fatally flawed captain almost killed them.
Not a hero, a zero saved by technology he ignored.