Did the AF dispatch office fail to fulfill their duty to look at satellite data?
Did AF flight ops management have a procedure to get the information about recent bad weather enroute passed to transoceanic flight crews, especially those transiting the tropical convergence zone?
When you who are safety managers look at these questions, do you wonder why this lack of procedure was allowed to occur when so many lives are at stake?
If you who are safety managers are able to see that this could be a problem for your airline, then you have created e forecast of things to come.
Safety Forecast 