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Old 02-13-2009, 09:50 AM
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Originally Posted by raymr View Post
If it was ice, how will they know for sure?

they should be able to tell from the flight recorder records of the postion or the pilot control inputs of the flight surfaces, the pilots will be trying to compensate for the loss of lift due to the ice
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