One of the major weather hazards pilots have to deal with this time of year is convective weather and resulting thunderstorms ...

In the early days of commercial aviation, flying was far more unpredictable than it is today. Pilots had limited information about the weather ahead, and thunderstorms were among the biggest threats ...

The 22 passengers who boarded Pennsylvania Central Airlines Flight 19 out of Washington, D.C. on August 31, 1940, would have had little reason to worry about arriving safely at their final destination ...