"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message
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"Dudley Henriques" wrote in
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On May 5, 5:10 pm, Mxsmanic wrote:
Aircraft normally wait for thunderstorms to pass before taking off.
No aircraft is safe in a thunderstorm.

So most likely the Kenya Airways flight didn't follow procedure or
receive clearance?

Hard to say not knowing the exact situation, but in my opinion, only a
pilot with a death wish accepts a takeoff clearance in the middle of a
thunderstorm.

It doesn't neceesarily follow that he took off in the middle of a CB...

I agree. To do that would have been against all my sense of logic anyway.
Stranger things have happened, and pilots do indeed from time to time push
weather for one reason or another but I'd hate to second guess this poor guy
at this point. It's been my experience that what appears almost certain
immediately after these things seldom carries through the investigation.
Dudley Henriques