Is it just me?

[AviationObserver]

...or are there more incidents of commercial a/c flying into weather they have no business being around, lately?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1799896040700575777

 

[3393RP]

That's two in the last month. There are around 140,000 scheduled airline flights every day.

It's you.

 

[Kyle N]

Probably like many things, social media and 24 hour news cycle making it seem like things are happening at a statistically higher rate than in the past.

 

[TCABM]

Buff right out.

 

[AviationObserver]

It's you.

Just living up to my avatar, it would seem

 

[Let'sgoflying!]

Almost had to bust the glass out in order to see the runway.
Autoland?

 

[Hengelo]

THE FRONT FELL OFF

(can't believe you guys let that one slip)

 

[tobnpr]

Apparently, they weren't using the radar anyway...so no great loss

https://twitter.com/x/status/1800014300138107335

 

[AviationObserver]

Maybe (maybe) the weather got shadowed in the airborne radar, but shouldn't ATC have seen those echoes and diverted the flight?

P.S. I was howling at "The Front Fell Off"...never saw that before. Thanks, Hengelo

 

[sourdough44]

Now they will be the ones deviating 50 miles around every convective cell they see, one extreme to the next.
Likely a relatively short flight with a 320, a peek at the most recent radar picture before pushing off the gate is helpful, big picture stuff. BWTHDIK.

 

[Spinka]

Maybe (maybe) the weather got shadowed in the airborne radar, but shouldn't ATC have seen those echoes and diverted the flight?

ATC in Europe typically doesn't do that. Many of them don't have systems where it's simple to overlay weather radar images on their displays.

The flight time of that flight is roughly 2 hrs.

 

[moparrob66]

I wonder if theres a subconscious feeling of invincibility with yuuge planes and yuuger weather? Would they have tried that in a King Air? Baron? Taylorcraft?

 

[UTLonghorn_1979]

Buff right out.