Investigators probing a deadly plane crash in Florida say ice was almost certainly a contributing factor in the accident. Experts note that ice buildup can alter the shape of a wing, throwing off a plane's aerodynamics and making it difficult to control.<\/p>\n
The crash killed nine people aboard a Learjet that went down in a South Florida neighborhood.<\/p>\n
Source:<\/strong> The New York Times \u2014 Investigators Looking for Cause of Florida Crash Say Ice Was \u2018Certainly a Factor\u2019<\/a>. Also reported by Fox News<\/a>, NBC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n AI-assisted summary; the reporting is the source's. Read the original at the link.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Investigators probing a deadly plane crash in Florida say ice was almost certainly a contributing factor in the accident. Experts note that ice buildup can<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[68,65,66,67,64],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","tag-aircraft-icing","tag-aviation-safety","tag-florida","tag-ntsb","tag-plane-crash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}