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Old Sep 16, 2013, 4:38 pm
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Originally Posted by Simon
Aren't ATRs a non-option because of the icing on the wings issue in northern climates that brought down the aircraft near CVG in the early 1990s?
There was an AD issued to fix it for flight into known icing conditions. AE (American Eagle) decided it was cheaper and easier to just move all of their fleet to SJU/MIA (now just SJU I believe) than to fix it.
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