The Air France Flight 447, carrying 228 people vanished Sunday about four hours into its flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. The cause of the crash will not be known until the black boxes are recovered — which could take days or weeks. But weather and aviation experts are focusing on the possibility of a collision with a brutal storm that sent winds of 100 mph straight into the airliner's path (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090602/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/brazil_plane).
I still remember when my flight from Sydney to KL was stranded on the runway due to thunderstorm in Sydney back in December 2007 (7 December to be exactly). The wind was so strong as the Boeing 747 in its parking gear mode yet I still could feel the turbulence. Luckily, the storm lasted only for an hour.....however my flight was delayed for two hours before the air control tower allowed for take-off at 5.00pm.
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