Hello!
Originally Posted by
Water pilot
If the pilot was working for three hours in nearly freezing weather clearing sloppy wet snow, he would have likely been hypothermic without realizing it.
I have had to remove snow and ice from aircraft in similar conditions for hours on several occasions. The last thing you need to worry about is hypothermia. This is heavy workout whilst wearing winter clothes. If anything, he will have suffered from
hyperthermia, dehydration and general exhaustion after three hours of this, depending on his state of fitness. And of course at some point it gets so tiresome - and also pointless and frustrating as the continuosly falling snow will spoil most of your previous effort - that one can easily make the wrong deciction just to get out of that situation.
But of course we do not know if the de-icing state of the aircraft did play a role in this accident.