http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090607/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/brazil_plane
At the above website the accompanying video said that there was only a 30 mph safe range of flight for the aircraft. In a storm like they entered that went up to 50,000 feet this is an impossible tolerance. I think in the future flights like this should either be turned back or forced to fly around such large storms that reach up to 50,000 feet in altitude.
With only 30 mph margin of safety between stalling and falling out of the sky and going to fast and breaking up, the plane had no business being where it was at all.
Because all it needed to stall and drop several thousand feet was a sustained tailwind of 100 mph from the rear of a few seconds to lose 5,000 to 10,000 feet. And the surely fatal burst of more than a few seconds of a 100 mph headwind would break the plane apart and cause a ball of flame like someone on a boat nearby saw fall into the ocean at the correct time and day they were supposed to be flying overhead.
Also, because of global warming and with larger and larger storms of all kinds all over earth it might be wise for planes to avoid them completely if possible in the future.Maybe storms with more than say 50 mph winds or even 30 mph winds might need to be avoided in the future if they are up above jet flight altitudes of 25,000 to 40,000 feet. Satellites usually can foresee the wind speeds in storms through radar.
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