Originally Posted by
cornfedcowboy
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.
Planes are going 500+ MPH and can't turn on a dime. So if weather forms directly ahead of them or literally right around them, "a minute or two" is not enough time to deviate around it.