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Old Mar 6, 2012 | 8:41 pm
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Originally Posted by jmastron
... Powering back at the gate (pulling snow and ice into the engine sensors)...
The use of reserve thrust might have contributed to contaminating the leading edges of the wings by spraying slush or water that later froze, but not the engine sensors. It was failure to use engine anti-ice that resulted in faulty sensor readings.
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Old Mar 6, 2012 | 11:07 pm
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I've been on several Northwest flights that did it.

A Delta pilot told me in the mid-1990's that company policy forbid doing it.
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