Originally Posted by
GoHomeLeg
Serious question: isn't anti ice on the top of fuselage the lesser of two evils? Or is there really no concern that ice could form on the plane and shear off into the engines at or around V1? Now I do know that engines are tested by ingesting hail but isn't eating a ton of ice at once far more dangerous in a critical phase of flight flight than some type 4?
No, because it has never happened to a CRJ in the past, so it never will in the future. That is why I only fly on ERJs because they have never crashed with passengers on board.