On Feb 17, 12:23*am, VOR-DME wrote:
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On Feb 16, 3:38*pm, VOR-DME wrote:
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On Feb 15, 5:41*pm, Tman wrote:
Dudley Henriques wrote:
There's a very good chance the Boston crash might have been tailplane
icing.

Did you mean BUF or did I miss something in Boston?
T

Yes. I've been dealing with a Boston issue most of the day and my
senior moment quota kicked in. It was Buffalo.
DH

Oh thanks! Spent two hours on the NTSB database trying to figure what
Boston crash we were talking about! :-)

Sorry. Those "senior moments" can be annoying for sure. It's a shame
youth is wasted on such young people.
:-)))
-D

No harm done. We always learn something by going back through the NTSB
records! I was surprised to find how few accident records included both the
location "Boston" and the keyword "icing". Aside the FEDEX takeoff incident,
where ice caused physical damage to one of the engines, I learned that a
Skymaster crashed in 1975 departing Boston, probably because of airframe
icing. His intended destination? Buffalo :-)

I belong to a world-wide flight safety work group that uses the base
all the time. It can be useful as you say. Our work is primarily
involved with the low altitude aerobatic display environment but many
in our community are airline people and have a great interest in
anything that enhances the learning curve safety wise.
I was pleasantly surprised to discover that in our work group alone,
the interest in tailplane icing has increased since yesterday to the
point where information has been spreading throughout the low to
medium altitude turbo-prop scheduled and non- scheduled operations
world wide.
-DH