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It would have to be a pretty severe storm for a pilot to lose control of an aircraft; all commercial aircraft are equipped with weather radar. With the assistance of radar and air traffic control, pilots will skirt most of the nasty weather. If the weather is bad at the origin or the destination airport, the flight will be grounded at its departure point or divert to an alternate airport until the storm passes.
Many major airports are equipped with LLWAS (Low Level Windshear Alert System), which detects wind shear from storms near the airport. The crash of Delta 191 nearly 20 years ago in DFW was caused by windshear from a severe storm near the airport. A 'microburst' (a severe downdraft) forced the aircraft down on approach to DFW.
Pilots are professionals and responsible enough to avoid getting themselves and their passengers into a weather situation they have no control over.
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Causa latet vis est notissima - the cause is hidden, the results are well known.
Alpha Alpha (University of Oklahoma) Chapter, #814, 1984
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