Nation IN BRIEF : NEW YORK : FAA Plans Change in De-Icing Policy
De-icing regulations will be changed by next winter as a result of last month’s deadly crash of a USAir jetliner, a Federal Aviation Administration official said. “We are proceeding in the FAA on the assumption that this tragedy was caused by icing and taking every step we can to prevent a recurrence . . . ,” Anthony Broderick told a Senate subcommittee hearing in Manhattan. Flight 405 crashed on takeoff in a snowstorm March 22 at La Guardia Airport. Twenty-seven of the 51 people aboard were killed. Broderick’s report says the FAA plans to “establish limits beyond which pilots will be forbidden to take off without returning for another icing.” The FAA plans to gather de-icing experts at a conference next month.
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