The following information provides an awareness of problems that might be avoided in the future. The information is based on final reports by official investigative authorities on aircraft accidents and incidents.
Jets
Heavy Rain on Takeoff
Bombardier CRJ700. No damage. No injuries.
The CRJ was cruising at 35,000 ft during a scheduled flight with 66 passengers and four crewmembers from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S., to Chicago the morning of April 18, 2010, when the flight crew noticed that the airplane was not turning normally toward a navigation waypoint. The pilots also received a warning that the automatic flight control system was encountering excessive aileron forces.
“The captain disconnected the autopilot and attempted manual control of the ailerons,” said the report by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). “He found that aileron forces were e…
