Originally Posted by
khorton
I wonder if Colgan's DHC-8-400 ground training included watching one of the NASA ice contaminated tail plane stall videos.
I saw part of the NTSB inquiry video, and yes, Colgan uses that video in it's training.
This may be a contributing cause of this accident. Due to overall inexperience, the crew may have had too much pre-occupation with ice and tail icing. It may even have been subconscious on their part.
The Captain may have also felt some need to demonstrate his superior icing knowledge given that the FO expressed so much inexperience and fear of icing conditions.