LOT 2-B763 near Toronto - Jun19 2009, severe turb./unreliable airspeed

[Mittelos Bioscience]

Great poster!! I especially liked the decor (fancy curtains blocking out the sun) and the lascivious look on the guys face...After that champagne they might just pull out some curtains along the seats to get private.

[joeyb747]

Great poster!! I especially liked the decor (fancy curtains blocking out the sun) and the lascivious look on the guys face...After that champagne they might just pull out some curtains along the seats to get private.

...and look! They actually have food, and a lot of it, on the trays in front of them! FOOD! On an airplane!     

[maredzki]

Their normal flight path would take them north from Chicago cross Elliot Lake (CYEL). You have to wonder why they had a flight plan that took them through southern ontario.

My guess is the flight plan was filed at a time when the storm front was north of Chicago; they usually leave between 5:00 and 7:00 pm; mostly prior to 6:00 pm CDT. This flight left at 7:55 pm CDT. At any rate, they got stuck having to go through a rather nasty bit of weather which may have caused the problem.

It is odd that they didn't request deviation due to weather. It would have been a grand deviation as the cell was pretty spread. They've must have hit a pretty bad tail wind to show an overspeed caution.