Delta A320 vs Hail

Hacker15e

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Picked this up over on AR15.com, posted by someone who was apparently a pax. Scheduled to go to Boston, emergency divert to Denver.

Haven't seen any news on it yet....

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/DAL1889

http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_1_5/1776024_Delta_Flight_1889___Emergency_Landed_at_DIA.html

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Wow, I landed 2 planes behind this guy tonight. At first sounded like cockpit smoke because they said they couldn't really see outside visually and needed an ILS. Makes perfect sense now.
 
Scary!

I hate to sound like a worry-wart but, I find myself curious in all 3 cases (DL747, AA787, DL320) how close are we to seeing a more significant accident?

Just eyeballing their flightaware track, they look well clear of weather. I know FlightAware just takes a snapshot but at least at first glance it wasn't like they went through the heart of some massive line. (i know hail travels and doesn't reflect)
 
Baronman said:
Scary!

I hate to sound like a worry-wart but, I find myself curious in all 3 cases (DL747, AA787, DL320) how close are we to seeing a more significant accident?

Just eyeballing their flightaware track, they look well clear of weather. I know FlightAware just takes a snapshot but at least at first glance it wasn't like they went through the heart of some massive line. (i know hail travels and doesn't reflect)
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You really can't go by FA. THe snapshot of the weather cannot be the same for the entire flight. I've seen it look much worse ; and better) than it really was.

I was thinking the same thing about the recent trend. One thing I've seen locally is that unforecasted storms have been popping up with some regularity this year, and they can be big. I got caught just a couple of days ago. What sould have been a :45 flight home ended up being longer. Plan A worked and it only took about :20 longer, but because of the way it was developing, Plan B was a 2:15 diversion.
 
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deadstick said:
You really can't go by FA. THe snapshot of the weather cannot be the same for the entire flight. I've seen it look much worse ; and better) than it really was.

I was thinking the same thing about the recent trend. One thing I've seen locally is that unforecasted storms have been popping up with some regularity this year, and they can be big. I got caught just a couple of days ago. What sould have been a :45 flight home ended up being longer. Plan A worked and it only took about :20 longer, but because of the way it was developing, Plan B was a 2:15 diversion.
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Politics aside, one wonders if what they said about global warming causing extreme and less predictable weather events is true.
 
Murdoughnut said:
Politics aside, one wonders if what they said about global warming causing extreme and less predictable weather events is true.
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Yes.

And anybody who knows me knows I do not fall on the cold side of the political spectrum. I have been flying since 1988 and seen a lot of weather. I also have a degree in chemistry and can digest alot of the science as its presented. I feel people who politicize hard science, that which has been studied and withstood the scrutiny of peer reviews, do us all a disservice.
 
surreal1221 said:
Hail can be ejected from a storm a fair number of miles away from the strongest updraft.

Just an FYI.
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˄˄ This ˄˄

If the thunderstorm is in the building stage, an immense amount of hail can to ejected upward out of the storm and cascade down miles away.
 
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