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Flying through a hurricane is not dangerous at all, especially for a massive plane like a 737. Airplanes are incredibly resistant to horizontal winds, which ar
by lightbyte 9y ago
Flying through a hurricane is not dangerous at all, especially for a massive plane like a 737. Airplanes are incredibly resistant to horizontal winds, which are all a hurricane is.
It's vertical winds that are dangerous to fly through, which is what thunderstorms create.
- lisper 9y agoHurricanes usually have embedded thunderstorms.
- lightbyte 9y agoSo does non-hurricane air. The hurricane by itself presents very little danger to a plane in the air.
- lisper 9y ago> So does non-hurricane air That depends on what you mean by "non-hurricane air." An embedded thunderstorm by definition has to be embedded in some other weather system. That other weather system doesn't have to be a hurricane, but so what? That doesn't change the fact that one of the many dangers of flying into a hurricane is the embedded thunderstorms it contains. http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/prepare/hazards.php http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/prepare/hazards.php "Hurricanes and tropical storms can also produce tornadoes. These tornadoes most often occur in thunderstorms embedded in rain bands well away from the center of the hurricane; however, they can also occur near the eyewall." > The hurricane by itself presents very little danger to a plane in the air That's a vacuous statement. Yes, if you remove all the dangerous parts of a hurricane, whatever remains is, by definition, not dangerous. And yes, it's true that strong winds by themselves are not dangerous. Commercial airliners regularly fly through the jet stream which is comparable to a hurricane in terms of wind speed. But that doesn't change the fact that hurricanes contain embedded thunderstorms, which can be very dangerous.