This ASOS automated weather data system is similar to the one in Ely, Nevada’s Yelland Field that gave bad info to a plane lost in the clouds. That plane, piloted by a non-instrument-rated pilot, crashed with visibility that was incorrectly reported by the ASOS as being VFR when it was not. Photo By Famartin, Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Via Wikimedia.
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