Originally Posted by
BoilerUP
Pretty sure there was a hard landing by Skywest where tail icing was a contributing, if not the main, cause...
The 727 didn't have tail anti-ice either, but I've seen them completely iced up before...just like a CRJ tail. Just because there hasn't been an accident for tail stall (yet) doesn't mean it wouldn't be prudent to have tail anti-ice protection. The Beechjet has a known tail-stall issue related to icing (thing becomes a friggin' lawn dart!) and IIRC an inop tail heater is a no-go item.
I mean let's think about it, the airplane was designed by Canadians but it is absolutely horrid for errant EICAS messages when it gets cold-soaked and the flap fail issue has (in part) been attributed to slush/snow working its way into the system.
And the saab rudder limiter starts going nuts when the deicing season comes around, and I think sweden is pretty cold too. Just cause the country the CRJ was built in was cold means absolutely nothing in regards to its handling in the cold weather/snow/ice. Remember someone smarter than all of us designed these things, and the probably went to school to learn whether it needs this or that to work, and for the previous poster go look up what severe icing actually is. 4 inches of ice doesnt constitute severe icing, location and rate of accumulation determines what is severe and what is not.