Aircraft Icing

AIRCRAFT ICING Light snow falls as Air Ontario flight 1363 stops in the remote northern community on its way from Thunder Bay to Winnipeg. Temperature hover around freezing. Visibility is decreasing, if the flight does not leave soon, it could be grounded indefinitely. Finally, an hour behind schedule the plane taxis to runway 29. Captain M performs a brief engine run up. Heating the engines to rid them of any accumulated snow and ice. Then he begins his roll down the runway. The F28 reaches its takeoff s
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