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A comment on Air France 447: The ‘Coffin Corner’ and a ‘Mesoscale’ Maw. Parent comment

Re:Air France 447: The ‘Coffin Corner’ and a ‘Mesoscale’ Maw by TweedHeads on Monday June 08, 2009 @03:03PM (#647799)
For a hundred years we've been flying planes thru storms, lightnings, adverse conditions of every kind, so fuck the coffin corner.

The pilot and copilots had thousands of flight hours under their belt.

Not a single mayday call.

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Re:Air France 447: The ‘Coffin Corner’ and a ‘Mesoscale’ Maw by nopassrecover on Monday June 08, 2009 @07:02PM (#648192)
Radio communication fail? Weird electrical/magnetic phenomena? Meteor? These are just some of the more plausible ideas than "covert terrorism".
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