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Feb 19th, 2009 at 9:22am

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Reply #1 - Feb 19th, 2009 at 10:02am

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I think its a bit early to speculate.  The investigators have a lot more information than the rest of us, and they won't announce a finding for months.  As with most plane crashes, there probably was more than one problem, a sequence of events.  The first may have been the ice issue, but that alone wouldn't crash the plane.  Perhaps the tail de-ice boots were not functioning, perhaps the pilots did something they weren't supposed to.  The media was quick to hang the pilots for using the autopilot, however the book only recommends turning off the autopilot in extreme icing, which supposedly was not the case.
 
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Reply #2 - Feb 19th, 2009 at 11:55am

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DaveSims wrote on Feb 19th, 2009 at 10:02am:
I think its a bit early to speculate.  The investigators have a lot more information than the rest of us, and they won't announce a finding for months.  As with most plane crashes, there probably was more than one problem, a sequence of events.  The first may have been the ice issue, but that alone wouldn't crash the plane.  Perhaps the tail de-ice boots were not functioning, perhaps the pilots did something they weren't supposed to.  The media was quick to hang the pilots for using the autopilot, however the book only recommends turning off the autopilot in extreme icing, which supposedly was not the case.  


Ice alone can and has caused aircraft to crash. That is the problem with Dash and ATR type aircraft  they have "deicer" boots and no "anti icing" systems. In other words they have to ice up before they can do anything about it. You are right about that media and the auto pilot and that it is only a recommendation though.

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