The Colgan Flight 3407 accident highlighted persistent safety concerns regarding turboprops operating in icing conditions and the effectiveness of current de-icing systems. Aircraft icing ...

Tailplane stalls, particularly ice-contaminated tailplane stalls (ICTS), occur when the horizontal tail exceeds its critical angle of attack, often causing a nose-down tendency and light pitch ...

According to the video, tailplane icing is particularly dangerous because many pilots don't understand it as well as they do wing ice. Some of the tried and true procedures for dealing with wing ice, ...

Credit: NASA I wrote on the topic of ice-contaminated tailplane stall a while back and apparently did not understand the problem. It is now years later and I still feel the same as I did then. I ...

Let me start with the same caution as in yesterday's item about this sad incident: it can take months or years to get the full explanation of an airplane crash, sometimes the real answer is never ...

With winter approaching, NASA is providing pilots with a way to help them avoid the hazards of ice contamination while their planes are on the ground. NASA developed “A Pilot’s Guide to Ground Icing.” ...

Do you give much thought to experiencing Ice Contaminated Tailplane Stall (ICTS) in your airplane? I didn’t think so. ICTS was a highly topical subject for pilots in the 1990s and 2000s but is not ...