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if that s the case in an aircraft that normally does 500 knots, this air bus 8320 that means at least it tells me i m not an investigator that either they were pushing some facing some heavy head winds over 100 knots or the pilot had slowed the aircraft down because he anticipated a problem and wanted to give himselves a few more seconds to divert away from what was on the radar screen. i m coming to a number of different conclusions but this does make sense? doesn t it? absolutely. or could be a combination of both. you know as a pilot whenever you get into severe turbulence you want to slow the airplane down to a maneuvering speed because you want to reduce the effects of the gust loads, the instant shocks to the airplane that you get in turbulence because that s what does the damage. so the pilot may have slowed the