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FAA/NTSB Remain at Odds over Turboprop Icing Needs

Steve Scott

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

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Ever since 1994 when an American Eagle flight en route to Chicago in freezing rain went into a high-speed dive and crashed near Roselawn, Indiana, killing all 68 people aboard, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) have been at loggerheads over turboprop icing safety. The NTSB placed blame in part on ice accumulation on the American Eagle ATR-72's wings and recommended in 1996 that testing requirements for flight certification of all turboprops be adjusted…

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