X-31 crash

A NASA mishap-investigation board has concluded that an accumulation of ice in or on the unheated pilot-static system was the root cause of the crash of its X-31 experimental aircraft at Edwards AFB, California, on 19 January. The NASA board says that the build-up of ice blocked the small tube ...

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