This fluid is good for 1 to 1.5 hours. On takeoff, the fluid slides off the wing and the plane takes off normally. However, it's not the only de-icer a plane uses. At high altitudes the air is ...

Alex Bratianu-Badea experienced his first de-icing—in which a plane is sprayed with hot chemicals to remove ice—in 2015 as a Massachusetts Institute of Technology grad school student.

A PLANE sent by Belgium to pick up Irish troops for a European Union assignment was temporarily grounded in freezing Baldonnel yesterday - as there was no de-icer machine on site. The problem ...

While we obviously de-ice planes, we’re not as well practised as countries such as Russia and the USA which have to do it on a regular basis. Blast-off: a Klimov VK-1 turbo jet engine in action ...

asked co-pilot Humberto de Campos Alencar e Silva moments before the Brazilian passenger plane crash ... cause of the crash ...

The crew can spray the plane with a special hot water/glycol mixture. It can take around 40 minutes to de-ice large passenger airplanes, so planes often have to wait "their turn" for the de-icing ...

Snow and ice may seriously disrupt airport operations and airline schedules, despite the appeal of warm fires and wintry ...

A preliminary National Transportation Safety Board report indicates ice buildup played a role in the fatal crash of single-engine plane near Williamsburg last week. The three-page report released ...