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Dangerkitty said:That wasn't due to airframe ice. The engine's iced up on the ground when the crew didn't turn on the engine anti-ice. Thus, on take off the EPR's read artificially high and the aircraft took off with about half of what takeoff power should have been.
You'd think any competent crew would have X-checked the EPR with EGT, fuel flow, and N1, not to mention the easily noticable sensation of accelrating very slowly! There was a near accident in some pacific island when a 732 had the EPR probes (both) covered by some fine powder due to some kind of mining nearby and they cleared the rocks off the dep end by some 5 to 10 feet!