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In your honest opinion, what's the dumbest decision a pilot/crew made that caused a deadly crash?
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Florida_Flight_90
>be 1982
>DC is in the process of being hit by a historic blizzard, winter weather infrastructure is ill-prepared to keep up with the snowfall
>be the captain of a 737-222 waiting in an unusually long line for takeoff
>notice your wings are completely covered in snow
>instead of turning back to request deice, decide to exploit the jet exhaust of the DC-9 in front of you to clean your wings off so you don't lose your spot in line
>its becomes your turn to take off
>improvised deicing procedure leaves your trailing edges caked in ice and the engine inlet sensors iced over giving faulty instrument readings
>end up trying (and failing miserably) to take off with iced over wings at ~70% power, only tasting flight briefly before hitting an expressway and crashing in the Potomac river
>74 people on the plane and 4 people on the bridge die
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Florida_Flight_90
>be 1982
>DC is in the process of being hit by a historic blizzard, winter weather infrastructure is ill-prepared to keep up with the snowfall
>be the captain of a 737-222 waiting in an unusually long line for takeoff
>notice your wings are completely covered in snow
>instead of turning back to request deice, decide to exploit the jet exhaust of the DC-9 in front of you to clean your wings off so you don't lose your spot in line
>its becomes your turn to take off
>improvised deicing procedure leaves your trailing edges caked in ice and the engine inlet sensors iced over giving faulty instrument readings
>end up trying (and failing miserably) to take off with iced over wings at ~70% power, only tasting flight briefly before hitting an expressway and crashing in the Potomac river
>74 people on the plane and 4 people on the bridge die
