Tragedy in New York

[BigTruck]

New word is that the de-icing was working but the pilot left the autopilot on too long and over-reacted when he switched it off and was covered in ice...this of course is speculation from the news here in the Bay area, it will be interesting to see what the actual investigation turns up...

[Boss_BlueAngels]

Another accident that hits close to home... the First Officer (Rebecca Shaw) was a fellow classmate and friend of mine through college at Central Washington University. We both began the flight program at the same time and were in nearly every class together for four years, and even had the same instructor for instrument training. I've done dozens of projects and presentations with her. It was always a pleasure working with her. Toward the end of our instrument training I would ride along in the backseat on the cross country flights to observe and she did the same on my cross country flights. She was such a nice person and always did well in the classes.  Toward the end of our college experience she worked at the local FBO as dispatcher.  She was always a pleasant face to see before and after each flight.

Dang, 25 and I've nearly lost as many friends in aviation as my age!

[beaky]

Here's something interesting... from the PoA board, posted by a pilot from the same airline who has flown that aircraft...

"As was covered in the 4:00 NTSB brief today:

The only autopilot limitation that exists regarding icing is a Bombardier limitation that states: The autopilot is not to be used in severe icing. According to the NTSB, it does not appear as if there were any available signs that they were in severe icing, so they were well within the limitations of the auto pilot. The NTSB says the news got this wrong - the autopilot is allowed in icing conditions."

[BFMF]

I just heard about this on the news lastnight. Such a tragedy....