Cloud seeding is an 80-year-old practice for the promotion of rainfall, where airplanes fly up into the cloud layer and inject dry ice or silver iodide crystals to induce the water vapor to form ...

Strong winds play a crucial role in the formation of dust storms. These strong winds are produced by a variety of weather ...

However, if you infrequently fly north in the winter ... It is too easy to blunder into a cloud and turn your airplane into an ice cube. How about winter, daytime IFR conditions, and mountains?

It does not include a determination of what caused the airplane to crash, but the report does point to a low overcast cloud layer ... The fuselage was found torn into multiple sections ...