Originally Posted by
Dash8Pilot
I believe a couple of accidents led to this. The first was a CRJ-200 in China which crashed after taking off with ice on the wings and over-rotated. The second was the Challenger crash with Dick Ebersol form NBC sports.
Doesn't change the fact that it's a stupid procedure.
You could be right but I thought both those crashes occurred in 2004 and the new procedure was handed down in April/May of this year.