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Old 29th Dec 2019, 12:14
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To be fair to the Kazakhs, and I have a fair bit of experience working with them, they are very much rule followers, as opposed to rule-disregarders or ignorers.
I don't know for sure what happened with the Fokker, but two things are sure.

1. Pilots who work there know a lot about ice, iceing, deiceing etc. It's meat and drink to a Kazakh pilot.
2. Fokker pilots surely know about its reputation when carrying ice- any ice.

I think this'll turn out to maybe be undetected clear ice, or some unfortunate combination of circumstances- perhaps including a weight and balance issue, rather than recklessness.

Kazakh pilots are very wary by nature.
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