After all that has been written on the subject of icing on wings... after all the accidents and deaths directly attributable to a failure to de-ice... after all the warnings and posters produced on the subject... what sort of moron would take off in an aircraft with visible ice accretion on the wing? Particularly in an aircraft with not much performance to start with...???
It just defies belief... well, maybe not so much when you consider the laughable approach to safety that the CAA embodies...