It seems these thunderstorm-related incidents are occurring more and more.

In addition to today's incident, we had Hawaiian Airlines hit severe turbulence over Hawaii over the weekend.

Latam flew into a severe hailstorm and turbulence in October.

I contend that after the downburst problem was solved in the aftermath of Delta 191 (August, 1985), with USAir 1016 (July, 1994) being the exception that proves the rule, pilots began to lose their fear of thunderstorms. It has taken a while to get to this point but here we are.

Three or four years ago, shortly after I retired from WeatherData, Inc./AccuWeather, I had the opportunity to read over a major airline's meteorology training for its flight crews. It was what we were teaching pilots 30 years ago, almost verbatim. Meteorology has advanced a great deal in that time but aviation meteorology training has not. Add it to that the FAA's incredibly stupid position that "only aviation weather products can be given to pilots" and, since tornado warnings are "public" rather than "aviation" products (in their eyes), it is amazing no one got killed in the STL and DAB tornado incidents.

Aeromexico had a downburst crash in 2018, the first in MX-USA-CA since 1994. We actually had a downburst aviation death (the small plane was holding for clearance) at ORL this past summer.

The way I see it, the trend is in the wrong direction. I would not surprise me to lose an airliner in a weather-related crash in the next five years. Hope I am wrong!