http://www.groundreport.com Groundbreaking news. en-us info@groundreport.com info@groundreport.com VOLTA RSS Feed Generator <p>A Continental Q400 with registration number: N200WQ, crashed into a house in the buffalo-area last thursday (14/2-2009), just 5 nauticalmiles from it's destination.</p> <p>50 people were killed in the crash, which might have been caused by a build-up of ice on the wings. This would have changed the wing profile, and forced the aircraft to stall.</p> <p>A stall, in short, is the point of which the airplane&nbsp;moves to slow to fly, and starts to drop like a stone instead. Pilots are trained to coupe with this, but in low altitudes it can be dangerous or (like here) even fatal.</p> <p>Aircraft have anti-iceing systems to prevent things like this, from happening. Apperently, the system weren't working correctly, which is very rare though.</p> http://www.groundreport.com/Business/Plane-crash-in-Buffalo-N-Y-50-killed_22 Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:37:52 -0600