recent Teterboro incident:

perhaps to mandatorily de-ice all planes taking-off in freezing weather (?)

*perhaps conceive/implement some kind of an exterior "airplane warmer," such
as an "gigantic electric blanket" (?)

*I was listening to National Public Radio some time ago, and a Russian
gentleman told about a gigantic PARACHUTE thing he had invented for large (?)
or small (?) planes whose engines fail while in the air, and supposedly it
actually worked/works; and so I can't totally discount the seemingly
absurd/impossible, and especially when I or family am occasionally along

I shall never forget taking-off in the falling snow (runway was covered) at
Newark--we were maybe the last plane to take-off that Sunday night on a
Valentine's weekend approx 2-3 years ago to Atlanta


key paragraphs of Newsday article:

"...The wings of the CL-600 Challenger, manufactured in Canada, are
particularly susceptible to problems from icing on takeoff.

Although there was no precipitation at Teterboro before the chartered plane
attempted to take off about 7:20 a.m. Wednesday, the conditions were ripe for
frost forming on the wing. The plane had arrived the night before from Las
Vegas, a flight that would take the plane through extremely cold, high
altitudes, and was stored overnight on the ramp instead of inside a hangar
where frost would be less likely to develop. The pilot did not request the
plane be de-iced...."

http://www.nynewsday.com/news/nation...4134543feb04,0,
277194.story?coll=ny-nationalnews-headlines

NY NEWSDAY copyright 2005

www.nynewsday.com

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Was it too late?



BY SYLVIA ADCOCK
STAFF WRITER

February 4, 2005


Federal investigators said yesterday they were looking into whether the pilots
of the business jet that plowed into a warehouse near Teterboro Airport had
aborted the takeoff too far down the runway, when the plane was going too fast
to cancel the liftoff.

It's still not clear why the pilots aborted the takeoff, which forced the
CL-600 Challenger through a metal fence at the end of the New Jersey runway,
across a six-lane highway, and through a warehouse wall.

Investigators were looking at whether frost on the wings could have caused
control problems as the pilots were attempting to get airborne. The National
Transportation Safety Board hoped to interview the pilots yesterday. They were
both hospitalized in fair condition.

Everyone on board survived the crash, although the passenger of a car hit by
the aircraft remained in critical condition.... (the complete article is at
www.nynewsday.com)