Originally Posted by
Bloodhound
I thought Air Florida was the aircraft that had snow on the wings and the crew decided not to de-ice because the snow would blow off. Then the snow at the wing root supercooled and froze to the wing. Or am I confusing that with a USAir accident?
Air Florida was deiced. They then proceeded to have several procedural failures that resulted in the final accident... (Powerback, extended sit after deice, positioning (close) behind another aircraft, failure to properly set deice/antiice, etc)
http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?e...17X01907&key=1