We don't usually think of pine trees as having blooms, but they do, and these are those. I haven't a lot to rant about today, but a nice young lady who once wrote a blog about how to do your blog advised us that if we want to get it noticed, we have to do it regularly. It seems some bloggers will start one, and then only update it every few weeks, and of course those die on the vine rather quickly. Even when contributing to it regularly, and using a service to ping various blogger sites, it can still take quite a while to get some regular readers. So if you are one, thanks for visiting.The last couple of days, many of us have been following the story of the Air France jet which mysteriously vanished over the Atlantic during the night on Sunday. Latest reports say that there have been four separate patches of debris spotted in the area where it disappeared. This seems to suggest that it broke up in mid-air, and fell into the ocean in pieces.
If it flew directly into an especially violent tropical thunderstorm, in which there can be balls of hail the size of bowling balls, and violent up and down drafts, could that explain it? And why didn't they see it coming on their weather radar, and go around it? We may never know.
Finding the flight recorder (black box) would help a lot.
ReplyDeleteBut that won't be easy. It's hard to locate down there, but it is sending out signals for tracing it over a period of some 30 days.
Turbulence can be violent, and cannot always be seen on a screen. A probable cause. This kind of plane is quite a big ship.