On 6th May the Washington-based National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issued nine recommendations addressing the need to provide more comprehensive pre-flight weather information to pilots.

These recommendations are based on NTSB accident investigations involving aircraft encountering weather conditions, such as adverse surface wind, dense fog, icing, turbulence, and low-level wind shear. Currently, although information on these conditions may exist, it is not always provided to pilots through NWS products during preflight weather forecasts.