They hadn't dropped the gear yet. They crashed right at the outer marker, supposed to be 1500 AGL.
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Rich Thomas < richthomas79td...@constructivity.net> wrote: > Well, it depends a lot on the weather conditions, but yes, ice can build up > very quickly if the conditions are right, and at low altitude, (relatively) > low speeds, in a landing configuration, etc. you will have not have much > warning, much time to do much of anything, and the plane could lose lift > very rapidly from the accumulation of ice (heavy and alters aerodynamics of > the wings), perhaps jammed control surfaces, even engine problems. This was > a turboprop too, the props could get iced and lose thrust. And in an > approach config I would guess they have some flaps on, maybe spoilers to > slow down and dump some lift, wheels down at that point?, engines throttled > back so some time to spool up to get more thrust, generally not the best > config to get out of a problem. > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://okiebenz.com/pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com/attachments/20090213/110d9dc0/attachment.html> _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
