Thu, Jul 13, 2006
Says Manual Failed To Warn CL-600 Is Susceptible To Icing
Is the Canadair CL-600 overly susceptible to icing -- something
that's not made clear in the pilot's operating handbook or in
training documents? Eric Wicksell thinks so... and he's suing
Bombardier for negligence.
Wicksell was the first officer aboard a Hop-a-Jet twin on
November 18, 2004... when it crashed during take-off from the
airport in Montrose, CO. That accident killed pilot Luis
Polanco-Espaillat, and a passenger -- 14-year old Teddy Ebersol,
the youngest son of NBC Sports executive Dick Ebersol.
Wicksell's lawsuit, filed in Fort Lauderdale this week, names
both Hop-A-Jet and Bombardier... along with six other
defendants.
But Hop-A-Jet president Barry Ellis says hold on there... his
company is separate from the entity that owned the plane, even
though they share the Hop-A-Jet name. He said the other firm simply
owned the plane as an investment -- and leased it to yet another
company.
"Hop-A-Jet never had any operational involvement in that
airplane at all," Ellis said.
As Aero-News reported, the
NTSB ruled in its probable cause report in May that "the
flight crew's failure to ensure that the airplane's wings were free
of ice or snow contamination that accumulated while the airplane
was on the ground" contributed to the accident, adding "[t]his
failure resulted in an attempted takeoff with upper wing
contamination that induced the subsequent stall and collision with
the ground."
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