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 ...

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 ...

The aircraft ... into upward lift, addressing the issue that at high speeds, the front of the airframe must withstand large downward pressure, affecting the vehicle's ability to fly at high ...