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Air Traffic Monitoring => Listener Forum => Topic started by: jedgar on March 08, 2011, 03:27:29 PM

Title: Sad day for Canadian Heritage.
Post by: jedgar on March 08, 2011, 03:27:29 PM

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/quebec/heritage-developer-killed-in-plane-crash-on-quebec-us-border/article1933846/

I guess they couldn't de-ice -- I'm not familiare with the plane, sad never the less.

Title: Re: Sad day for Canadian Heritage.
Post by: joeyb747 on March 08, 2011, 07:42:53 PM

The Diamond DA40, while featuring advanced "glass cockpit", lacks wing and tail deicing capability.

See the page I linked to below. It gives a nice example of a Diamond DA40.

http://www.jet-scout.com/Diamond-DA40+TDI-for_sale_85.html

Also:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_DA40

Title: Re: Sad day for Canadian Heritage.
Post by: jedgar on March 09, 2011, 03:49:41 PM

any thoughts on where I'd find the audio for this incident..?

Title: Re: Sad day for Canadian Heritage.
Post by: dave on March 10, 2011, 07:11:58 AM

Unfortunately we don't have coverage where they went down.

Very sad accident.