Incident · 2006-01-02
What the record says
- Event date
- 2006-01-02
- Event type
- Incident
- Highest injury level
- No injuries
- Aircraft
- Saab-Scania AB (Saab) SF340B+ (N390AE)
- Operating rule
- Part 121
- Operator
- American Eagle Airlines Inc Operator named in NTSB report
- Operated by (per NTSB report)
- American Eagle Airlines, Inc.
Probable cause
An in-flight loss of control due to ice accreted in supercooled liquid droplets (SLD) conditions, and the flight crew's failure to maintain the specified minimum airspeed in icing conditions. Contributing to the accident was the flight crew's decision to climb the airplane in known and forecast icing conditions using an autopilot mode contrary to that specified in the operator's Airplane Operations Manual for climbs during periods of ice accretion or when ice was present on the airframe.
Source: NTSB case LAX06IA076Flight crew
Flight-crew details for this event aren't in the NTSB database extract we hold (its coverage starts with 2008 events) — a gap in our data, not an absence of crew.
Facts as the NTSB records them — GroundCheck adds no judgement. Preliminary records may be revised as the investigation proceeds.