[Wings-n-Wind]

I can't agree...

If you set up and fly any instrument approach....

And the (sudden or not) weather at minimums prevents visual acquisition of the runway environment and landing...

THENCE --
The published missed approach procedure or verbal missed approach instructions yield the next appropriate response from the flight crew.

(1) Fly the procedure as briefed... safely back into the sky...

(2) Hold as needed at a safe fix & altitude...
Get new weather... wait for better weather

(3) Select a precision approach with lower ceiling/visibility requirements -- as I suggested earlier...

...Or...
(4) Proceed to an acceptable alternate airport and land SAFELY.

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Any all of those listed options--correctly decided and flown...
... PREVENT these types of accidents.

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The weather... including faulty weather reporting....
(If that is the case)...)

Should not deceive or induce a professional crew to make mistakes with these tragic results.

Just my (retired) professional opinion...
(24 years in the cockpit... major domestic carrier)

[Yosemitest]

I agree the the Pilot In Command has the ultimate responsibility to ''Go Around'' and "Execute a Missed Approach" when at Decision Height, he doesn't have the approach lights or Runway lights in sight.

HOWEVER, the only way to stop the government from continuing to place AWOS at airports is to tie the blood these UNRELIABLE MACHINES have spilled as a "Contributing Factor" to these crashes.
The pilot was expecting 14-Aug 04:04AM VFR Calm Broken 7,500 10.
But what he got was a lot less than that.

Listen, I've got over 30 years of experience as an air traffic controller, and after USAF retirement, I've got 5 years with the FAA as an air traffic controller.

I know what I'm talking about.
Those damned AWOS machines do NOT do the job that a real human weather observer does.