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Pilots’ Reaction in Severe Icing Too Late To Avoid Crash

Steve Scott

Monday, November 10th, 2003

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The safety mantra: anti-icing ON, autopilot OFF, speed UP, get OUT of icing The basic procedures necessary to cope with in-flight icing continue to be re-learned the hard way - with dead aircrews and wrecked airplanes. The basic aircraft certification standards do not protect against freezing precipitation. Procedures required by airworthiness directive also may be inadequate, as evidenced by the toll of dead pilots and shattered airplanes One of the more recent examples concerns the fatal crash Dec. 21, 2002,…

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