Airframe icing

Records where ice on the airframe was the defining event. Ice changes the shape of a wing and adds weight, so an aircraft can stall at a speed that would normally be safe. Many older icing accidents are coded as a stall or a loss of control instead, and appear in those kinds of event.

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