CNN The Situation Room December 29, 2014 23:44:00
Anything it's cloudy. it's dark so there aren't visual references for that. you're over the ocean. so there aren't lights. can you trust what you're seeing and feeling as a pilot? >> well, yes. that's a very good question actually. you do actually look out of the windows of the aircraft. unless you're embedded in cloud, you should be able to see the thunderstorms from a distance because of the lightning flashes. and then you back this up with what you can see on your radar. you also listen to aircraft that are ahead of you on the same airway because they're ahead, getting closer to the weather...
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