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.
Soooo,...between the time deicing was complete and take off, the intakes puddled that much ice from freezing rain? With engines running? Not likely. Must've been the single engine taxi in those long JFK-like takeoff lines SBN is so famous for. 🤔
Or maybe it was the cheap fly-by-night vendor G4 used to de-ice? Sounds like they forgot to check the inlets for Ice accumulated prior to deice, when the freezing rain was actually coming down. I wonder how many similar incidents happened that day up the road at O'Hare?
Good thing this crew had their act together and aborted. This same thing happened years ago in PIA after an overnight. Aborted takeoff after both engines compressor stalled because of ice ingestion. Those pilots saved the company too. Seems G4 management will never learn. Maybe they should stick to solar deicing 😂