Scary Icing ATC tape

Sounds to me like she stayed very flustered even after regaining control,
and was beginning to realize that she should have realized it was ice long
before she finally did something about it. She regained the composure in her
voice, but she was still clearly confused-at least not thinking clearly-for
quite a while.

Even after regaining control, she did not switch to 121.5. And with a high
wing and not being able to see any ice the boots might have missed, deciding
to continue for 2.5 hours was a foolish decision, especially with the
information provided by ATC that there was serious potential to pick up more
ice on the way.

JMO

mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan"
Newsgroups: rec.aviation.piloting
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 11:23 PM
Subject: Scary Icing ATC tape


I suppose hindsight is 20/20, but her comments of "I just dropped at
2000 feet per minute with uncommnaded rolls.... I have no idea what
happened..... let's continue 2.5 hours to Bangor" don't really seem to
make much sense to me.

If a plane did that and I didn't have any idea why, I'd lean towards
getting it on the ground ASAP.

I suppose at some point, she must have realized that the ice was
coming off...

--Dan