Stefan wrote:
Stubby wrote:

There have been several fatal accidents. Check the left column in:
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/hurr...rricanes_x.htm



I stand corrected: In the last 50 years, there was one accident. This
last accident has been thirty years ago.

Please read the cited article. 4 flights, 34 men lost:

Fatal flights

Since the first hurricane flights in 1944, four airplanes have gone down
in storms. All of the men aboard the four airplanes were lost.

Oct. 26, 1952: An Air Force WB-29 was lost in Typhoon Wilma over the
Pacific with 10 men aboard.
Sept. 26, 1955: A Navy P-2V-5F disappeared in Hurricane Janet over the
Caribbean Sea with nine Navy men and two Canadian journalists aboard.
Jan. 15, 1958: An Air Force WB-50 disappeared southeast of Guam while
flying into Super Typhoon Ophelia with nine men aboard.
Oct. 12, 1974: An Air Force WC-130 went down in Typhoon Bess over the
South China Sea with six men aboard. Search airplanes picked up signals
from a crash-location radio beacon and reported seeing seat cushions and
oxygen bottles, which could have been from the airplane, in the water

Source: Hurricane Watch: Forecasting the Deadliest Storms on Earth by
Dr. Bob Sheets and Jack Williams.