AirAsia QZ8501 crash possibly the result of icing on jet’s engines
TomoNews US
2015-04-14
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AirAsia Flight QZ8501 likely flew into storm clouds that caused icing and damage to the jet’s engines, according to a report released by Indonesia’s weather agency.
The report added that that turbulence probably had far less of an impact on the plane than icing did.
According to the Wall Street Journal, many air-safety experts have said ice accumulation could have contributed to possible unreliable airspeed sensors and other flight-control difficulties. This could have led to a series of of events that resulted in the plane disappearing from radar screens at an altitude of more than 30,000 feet, and eventually going down.
Icing inside jet engines at high altitude near large thunderstorms is when moisture turns into tiny ice crystals that can be sucked inside an engine. If the ice melts but then freezes again on metal surfaces, it can then accumulate and either break into chunks that damage turbine blades, or melt and douse the ignition system.
However, the Wall Street Journal reports that experts say such so-called core engine icing has never caused a crash because the engines on those planes restarted after brief outages. Since 2008, a series of software fixes also basically solved the issue, the Wall Street Journal reported General Electric and U.S. safety regulators as stating.
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The report added that that turbulence probably had far less of an impact on the plane than icing did.
According to the Wall Street Journal, many air-safety experts have said ice accumulation could have contributed to possible unreliable airspeed sensors and other flight-control difficulties. This could have led to a series of of events that resulted in the plane disappearing from radar screens at an altitude of more than 30,000 feet, and eventually going down.
Icing inside jet engines at high altitude near large thunderstorms is when moisture turns into tiny ice crystals that can be sucked inside an engine. If the ice melts but then freezes again on metal surfaces, it can then accumulate and either break into chunks that damage turbine blades, or melt and douse the ignition system.
However, the Wall Street Journal reports that experts say such so-called core engine icing has never caused a crash because the engines on those planes restarted after brief outages. Since 2008, a series of software fixes also basically solved the issue, the Wall Street Journal reported General Electric and U.S. safety regulators as stating.
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