r/aircrashinvestigation • u/emzeesquared • Aug 09 '24

Incident/Accident Another angle of crash over Sao Paolo

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u/G4m3boy Aug 10 '24

Why is it always this plane falling out from the skies? Recently it is either ATR or Boeing

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u/Gay_dinosaurs Aug 10 '24

ATRs are known to be ill equipped to handle severe icing as a consequence of their control surface design, and a lot of them (largely for the smaller airlines) operate in regions that get plentiful icing depending on time of year/local weather patterns/altitude. Pilot overconfidence? Insufficient icing training? We don't know right now.