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Scranton | From what I've read, there is likely nothing they could have done to save themselves once they flew into this. It looks like they were avoiding larger storms, but this particular one built up very quickly and literally gave them only seconds to even react. They say going lower would have likely iced their wings up even faster as there are larger supercooled droplets as they go lower. The air temp dropped quickly to -47 with the moisture still in the liquid form. Think of an auto in an ice storm and how ice builds up on your outer surfaces while driving. Now think about driving when its negative 40 degrees and if rain could come down then. | |
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? about that Lear jet crash.
