Originally Posted by
Intrepid
SDF:
Thanks for the link. I read the W0X0F post. It is neutral.
Nonetheless the statement in the WSJ article:
"Over roughly the last two decades, Bombardier jets have suffered at least eight accidents or serious incidents stemming from loss of lift caused by ice buildup on their wings, according to aviation safety experts." It bothers me.
It is reassuring not to be on one of those 8 CRJs and not involved in those accidents.
The W0X0F post is neutral because pilots have to be objective in evaluating their mission and equipment to arrive at an objective decision to fly or not.
The WSJ, as with many newspapers, wants to sell newspapers, hence a lack of neutrality and comments like that above. Sensationalism and fear-mongering related to aviation is not uncommon in newspapers, from what I've seen. Bombardier is a relative youngster in the airplane building business, and includes in its line up not only the CRJ, but the DeHavilland DASH-7/8 and Lears.
I went through the entire NTSB list on CRJs. Only one might have involved icing in a flight operation. Details of that are incomplete because it happened in Russia.
Pilots are trained to recognize an incipient stall. There are numerous cockpit indications of an impending stall, of which an AOA indicator is but one.