Air France B744 at Rio de Janeiro on Nov 12th 2013, hail strike

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    An Air France Boeing 747-400, registration F-GITI performing flight AF-443 from Rio de Janeiro,RJ (Brazil) to Paris Charles de Gaulle (France), was climbing out of Rio's runway 15 at about 18:35L (20:35Z) when the aircraft encountered hail resulting in a cracked first officer's windshield. The aircraft levelled off at FL150, dumped fuel and returned to Rio for a safe landing on runway 15 about 110 minutes after departure. The aircraft received substantial damage to nose cone, leading edges of wings and stabilizers as well as the windshield.

    Passengers reported the aircraft also received a lightning strike.

    Das Radom sieht schon echt heftig aus 8|

    avherald

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    heftig (siehe Kommentare avherald):

    "I took off just ahead of the AF and didn't follow the AWAKE 1A SID, as it would take us into the line of CBs. We decided to maintain runway heading and cleared the weather in 15nm.
    What was worse, was the miserable help provided by the lousiest air traffic controllers around. The AF declared PAN PAN and the controllers kept pushing for them to continue climbing.
    Fortunately everything turned out ok."

    Liebe Grüße,
    Julius