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Old 8th Feb 2013, 15:44
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Originally Posted by Ganzic
We were scheduled to fly at that time, but postponed for 3 hours, couldnīt even get 200M visibility, when we did take off, as did the Transair flight in front of us, we picked up a lot of ice, and couldnīt clear Servere Icing until FL120, then Moderate Icing until FL220. The worst bit was Grnd to 1000 ft.
Are you describing the weather/icing conditions for the departure out of ALA at approximately the time of the accident?

The CRJ-100 & 200s are "hard-wing" aircraft - no LE devices.

Regarding icing, go-arounds and the CRJ-100 & 200, the following may be of interest:

http://www.tsb.gc.ca/eng/rapports-re...1/a97h0011.pdf, and more generally, Bombardier CRJ200 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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