<< >> NASA ASRS Report 934686, February 2011

A commuter jet flight crew returned to the gate for additional de/anti-icing when advised by other flight crews there was still ice and snow on their tail.

Attributes
ACN	934686
Time
Date	201102
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	PDX.Airport
State Reference	OR
Environment
Flight Conditions	IMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Commercial Fixed Wing
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Takeoff
Flight Plan	VFR
Person 1
Function	Captain Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 120 Flight Crew Total 16000 Flight Crew Type 3000
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Ground Event / Encounter Other / Unknown

Narrative:

Deiced per operations manual; taxied for take off; received clearance for takeoff and taxied onto runway 10L when the tower advised that other aircraft had seen ice and snow on the tail of our aircraft. Taxied back to gate and found reports to be true. We deiced and anti-iced and then departed.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A commuter jet flight crew returned to the gate for additional de/anti-icing when advised by other flight crews there was still ice and snow on their tail.

Narrative: Deiced per Operations Manual; taxied for take off; received clearance for takeoff and taxied onto Runway 10L when the Tower advised that other aircraft had seen ice and snow on the tail of our aircraft. Taxied back to gate and found reports to be true. We deiced and anti-iced and then departed.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.