Originally Posted by
stilton
No,
there was an Air Florida 737 that ended up in the Potomac however
The biggest error that day, amongst many, was failing to turn on the engine anti ice so the engine instruments suggested that they had the correct thrust set but the engine's were actually producing considerably less. However the wing had some snow and ice on, the de-icing truck had non approved replacement parts so it didn't spray the correct mix, the captain tried to use the exhaust from another aircraft to melt snow on his own aircraft making the situation worse as it quickly re froze, they sat for over 40 minutes in heavy snow waiting to depart and the FO expressed his concerns that the aircraft was not accelerating properly on the take off roll and that something was wrong but they still continued.