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Re: Voepass Linhas Aereas formation 2283 crashes successful Brazil - All 61 souls lost
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Originally Posted by TwentyDeewar 
Hard to judge icing tin bring down a modern airliner, remains to beryllium seen what the investigators find out.
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Still remains to beryllium seen of course, but icing tin so bring a modern airliner down. Has happened successful the past. Icing is simply a precise unsafe phenomena. Only a tiny furniture of crystal tin dramatically accidental the assistance characteristics of a wing.
All modern airliners person de-icing features. Varying from pneumatic boots that inflate breaking up the ice, to heated aerial being blown crossed the wing.
On the small planes I flew we had a strategy that would done a bid of tiny holes successful the helping seep de-icing fluid crossed the helping starring edge.
If the de-icing strategy are not moving 100% you tin not alert into a known are of icing conditions. There are besides known cases wherever pilots simply forgot to power the strategy on!
If you privation to person dispersed immoderate much I hap to travel crossed this booklet
https://www.theairlinepilots.com/for...operations.pdf
Here an illustration of those pneumatic de-icing boots connected an ATR
Jeroen
