Originally Posted by
j3cub
The SBN flight was not a diversion. It was a regular flight that had deiced and, from what I was told, had problems because freezing rain/icing built up on the engines before takeoff. When they ran the engine up ice was ingested and damaged the engines.
Always more to the story guys. Not as sensational as the news media and/or message boards makes it sound.
Seems to me all the issues we have with freezing rain year after year would create a policy not to fly when it is forecast.