CNN New Day Sunday January 4, 2015 12:33:00
And although we're hearing from indonesian officials that they believe the engine iced over and then the engine stalled, we have one person who says engines don't ice over, wings ice over. explain that if you would. >> right. the main danger posed by icing is indeed you get accumulations of ice on the leading edge of the wing. for instance if, you're flying through a cloud and the droplets of super cold water adhere to the leading edge and it turns to ice, you get huge chunks of ice forming that, destroys the aerodynamic lift. the wing can eventually stall. you remember the famous air crash wh...
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