Pilots: If You Don't Want to Make Your Passengers Sick and Do Millions of Damage

…don't fly into a hailstorm.
The metallic object visible behind the hole is a weather radar. It is a near-infallible device for staying out of hail. Use it!

And, while there were millions of damage and the passengers and one flight attendant got physically ill, they were somewhat lucky. A hailstorm took out the engines of Southern Flight 242 in the U.S. and the plane crashed at New Hope, GA in 1977.
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