I've been listening to CNN and Fox News reporting (read speculating) on yesterday's plane crash in Buffalo. Take their "reports" with a grain of salt. They don't have a clue.
Common sense tells me that this was an icing incident. My personal guess is that the crew neglected to turn on the wing anti icing system which is separate from engine anti icing. The wing system is mechanical whereas the engine A/I is hot air and the wind screen is most likely electric. Anyway, if I am correct, they probably had engine A/I ON, electric W/S and pitot/static system ON, and wing A/I OFF. The ice induced wing stall put the aircraft out of control and at 2300" above the ground they had no time to recover.
Both the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder have been recovered. The National Transportation Safety Board will do what it does best and will figure out exactly what happened.
God bless them all. This sort of thing shouldn't happen.
Again, just my guess - Buzz
Common sense tells me that this was an icing incident. My personal guess is that the crew neglected to turn on the wing anti icing system which is separate from engine anti icing. The wing system is mechanical whereas the engine A/I is hot air and the wind screen is most likely electric. Anyway, if I am correct, they probably had engine A/I ON, electric W/S and pitot/static system ON, and wing A/I OFF. The ice induced wing stall put the aircraft out of control and at 2300" above the ground they had no time to recover.
Both the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder have been recovered. The National Transportation Safety Board will do what it does best and will figure out exactly what happened.
God bless them all. This sort of thing shouldn't happen.
Again, just my guess - Buzz
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