Frozen Flight Crashes In the Potomac River
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The Role of Propylene Glycol in Ice Removal
The 737 was powered by two Pratt and Whitney JT8D turbo fan engines. They had flown over 27,000 hours before the crash. The captain decided to like kind of snake his plane around behind the New York Air flight. To try to get the exhaust of the jet engines from the plane in front of them to melt the snow and ice on his plane.
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