Exceptionally heavy precipitation, particularly the more solid types, can definitely hurt your airplane, but it’s the turbulence and convection, often outside the area of precip, if any, that can rip the wings off. ![]() ![]() Turbulence, Not PrecipĪs we blast merrily along watching the weather on our tablets, we often forget-or simply don’t know-that radar shows precipitation, not turbulence. Worse, even with better weather data in flight, these accidents aren’t going away. In the last decade, 50 accidents-about 10 per cent of all accidents-were due to in-flight structural failure. Structural failure accidents, often from getting too friendly with thunderstorms, kill both people and what little good press GA is able to garner.
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