Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20141228:13:29:00
The paint right down to the bare metal. >> uh-huh. what i want to pick up on you said this was many years ago and it was not picked up on radar. surely technology has improved since then. i mean, wouldn't you be able to see as a pilot a mass a 50,000 foot column like that? these are violent storms. >> yes, you can. but radar is not an exact science and it's not a perfect method either. it's looking ahead of the aircraft within about 20 degrees in a cone-like shape on either side and then the pilot has control of the radar antenna in the nose and can lift it and lower it to look at the vertical...
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