AirAsia Flight QZ8501: How passenger jets avoid bad weather

Indonesia AirAsia's Flight QZ8501, an Airbus A320-200 carrying 162, lost contact with air traffic control early on Sunday during bad weather on a flight from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore. Aviation experts say that poor weather alone is almost never the sole cause of a commercial airliner crash, but pilots will try to avoid nasty systems just to be safe.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/airasia-flight-qz8501-how-passenger-jets-avoid-bad-weather-1.2886436?cmp=rss