Often this information is placarded in the aircraft. According to the POH for the Cessna 172S, the crosswind component chart has fine print reading “maximum demonstrated crosswind velocity is 15 ...

There are a lot of performance metrics in aviation, and one of them is crosswind component. In short, it’s the speed of the wind that, when exceeded, means to run out of rudder authority.

As the aircraft conducted a second approach, the tower controller gave wind information to a departing flight which included gusts up to 25kt from 330° - presenting a crosswind component of 24kt.

If the wind is outside that limit the crew will have to take the aircraft to an alternate airport where the wind is within limits (which means a runway that has less of a crosswind component).

Weather at the time of the accident “was near or in exceedance of the aircraft’s maximum tailwind and crosswind component for landing.” ...

Under current arrangements, the crosswind runway comes into operation when “the crosswind component exceeds 20 knots on [the main runways]”. It was also used when other runways were undergoing ...