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Old 02-13-2009, 09:53 AM
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Originally Posted by raymr View Post
If it was ice, how will they know for sure?
CVR tapes to start with:
What’s being said in the cockpit is usually far more than what’s being said over the radios.

Then a look into the FDR (Flight Data Recorder):
Power settings and Configuration vs. Speed vs. Attitude vs. Vertical speed and so forth.
They can look into all these parameters and conclude that the only possible way for all the findings to add up and result in the crash was….(Perhaps in this case: Ice on the wings/tail/control surface(s).)

edit: What Lutz said.
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