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2014-07-18 Europe

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Posted by Steve White 2014-07-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 And something else: A Fateful Thunderstorm May Have Doomed Flight MH17

Anybody out there with the resources to bring up Wx from that time and area?

Posted by Uncle Phester 2014-07-18 19:35|| 2014-07-18 19:35|| Front Page Top

#2 "we were barely able to fire the missile"

Posted by Frank G 2014-07-18 19:38|| 2014-07-18 19:38|| Front Page Top

#3 The plane broke up at high altitude, well above storm clouds, debris strewn for miles.

Posted by Thineng Angailet7166 2014-07-18 19:51|| 2014-07-18 19:51|| Front Page Top

#4 It was the turbulence caused by the storms that would have caused a divert. I saw this last night on CNN(Amazingly). Showed the flight corridors, and that because of the threat of the storm turbulence they took a more northern route. The corridors are well-known, and the altitude of 33,000ft is cruising altitude. Just poorly trained crews high from success against Ukrainian military planes.

And yes, there was storms. CNN was showing them and it was intersecting 3 of the 4 corridors. Ironically they should have gone over Crimea, but with a storm the size of Crimea in the way they went around.

Posted by Charles 2014-07-18 20:55|| 2014-07-18 20:55|| Front Page Top

#5 Thank you Charles. Takes care of a couple of conspiracy theories. Now we have to get the weather-modification theorists to provide proof.

Thineng Angailet7166: The presence of the now-confirmed storm would motivate the crew to take diversion around the turbulence contained within.

Pax don't like to be thrown against the lap belts (or worse); unfortunately, they got something far worse.

Posted by Uncle Phester 2014-07-18 23:00|| 2014-07-18 23:00|| Front Page Top

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