potomac-Air Florida
Uplinker (sorry for thread drift)
you may wish to read the NTSB report before being un necessarily disrespectful to the crew of this aircraft who paid the price for their error.
1. The aircraft was de iced
2. The aircraft had a prolonged taxi in precipitation before takeoff allowing a build up of contamination
3. The crew were well aware of the contamination hazard (they held during taxi, close behind a DC9 hoping the jet efflux would prevent further build up of contamination)
4. In all probability(according to the NTSB) the Pt2 probes were contaminated by the jet exhaust from the DC9 in front, blowing surface contaminant into the B737 nacelles.
5. The crew omitted to select the engine anti-ice to "on" after starting the engines.
6. The captain failed to reject the takeoff despite the FO's concern over the engine indications.
they made several errors mainly due to inexperience of winter ops, but the walkround was irrelevant as the contamination occurred after engine start.