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The storm or they may have decided to climb regardless of clearance which would be extremely unusual. in terms of the radar plot here the speed given i believe would be the ground speed and not air speed, indicated air speed to control the flight of the air control. one would expect to have a significant difference in speed between the indicated and ground speed. that radar in itself is not entirely conclusive. i believe there were winds of some 40 knots at that altitude. that has to be taken into account too. it is rather difficult to make a decision. as you get to higher altitude air is thin...

The top is? >> precisely, but apart from that the thunderstorm system may be still growing. they can go up to a good 20,000 feet higher than they are flying and if you go up to the maximum altitude you have little air speed to play with and the aircraft is susceptible to the jet upset, and it is neither of which is advisable, and very difficult to recover from. we don't know that this was the case in this instance. we are speculating. it seem ises a likelihood and strong likelihood but we should not rule out other causes that may have resulted. >> do the pilots flying in that area get special ...