Originally Posted by
ECHO24
Nearly 100 weather balloons per day over the US for decades, one incident over Pennsylvania in 2019, "
While hitting a weather balloon may sound scary, it seems as though the effects were minimal as the aircraft didn't declare an emergency or deviate from its flight path:"https://simpleflying.com/air-canada-weather-ballon-collision/
1800 weather balloons per day worldwide. India, 2018, "
An Air India plane carrying 180 passengers was forced to make an emergency landing at the Indira Gandhi International Airport here on Sunday, after a balloon used to measure weather parameters was allegedly sucked into one of its engines, forcing it to shut down.": https://www.thehindu.com/news/nation...le23721645.ece
Weather information is vital for air travel.
All well and funny till it's your plane makin the emergency landing, eh?
Meh, maybe better to go back to ruthlessly bashing the AMA, eh?
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