Strong Winds Push Aircraft Off the Runway / Continental Airlines Flight 1404
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How Does the Censor Work?
The way the censor works is it samples wind direction and speed every second, and then the system computes and records various running averages. The two minute average wind direction speed is the wind value that's recorded and disseminated in the meteorological aerodrome reports and the atis reports. These are the official weather observations around the time of the accident. But it's not an instantaneous reading. So if the wind picks up really fast this is how it happen.
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