Originally Posted by
cornfedcowboy
I am more than happy to give the benefit of the doubt when airlines or airline emloyees make harmless or honest mistakes. That being said, the flew into A FRICKIN HAIL SHAFT. These weather formations take at least a minute or two to form. Apparently the radar didn't work prior to the airplane encountering hail. Otherwise, they wouldn't have flown any where near A FRICKING HAIL SHAFT.
Obviously you're commercial airline pilot with ATP, and thousands of hours flying.
Radar is not one hundred percent, weather forms fairly quickly, and as noted in another post, one doesn't need to be right in the storm to get hit. Hail can be carried a few miles away from the storm. Nothing here indicates the radar didn't work, just that the hail formed fairly quickly and/or was carried away from the storm clouds it formed in.