Pilot JP Dice Takes a Closer Look at Palm Beach Plane Crash | TMZ Live

With my meteorology background as well, you're looking at supercooled droplets up there. So you can actually have liquid water with temperatures below freezing. What happens with those supercooled droplets, they actually end up. As soon as they make contact with the metal skin of the airplane, they freeze on contact. And you can actually have the non-protected parts of the airplane get covered with ice. And in particular, what you really get concerned about is the tail section, that horizontal stabilizer getting covered with ice. That is usually the first to freeze up. So, JP, what kind of protection would a plane have in that? In that instance, they have heated wings. It's actually, it takes some of the air from the engines and that hot air and heats the leading edge of the wings. And there's an electrical heated element back on the horizontal stabilizer. So in ideal conditions, that works pretty well. But when you start getting in these supercooled type regimes like we could have had with this situation, it can totally overwhelm the ice protection systems on any airplane. Is this an issue of... Going higher rather than lower. I think what they were trying to do, though, was not really avoid the icing conditions. She had mentioned the ice was manageable. It looked like they were in moderate turbulence, and they were up and down 600, 700 feet, that they were actually looking for a little bit better ride, get up a couple of thousand feet, and the air should smooth out. We hear that a lot of times with even on the airliners. So I think that's what they were looking for in this particular case, and not so much trying to necessarily avoid the icing situation. Does air traffic control warn, because we didn't hear any kind of a warning, warn the pilot of an aircraft that's at 35,000 feet? That, hey, you are in a pretty dangerous area right now, avert it, go 20 degrees to the left or something like that. In terms of the air traffic control, that was one of the things I was kind of listening for. Anytime we're flying, I typically, and I fly corporate jets all the time, we're looking at the weather and it's kind of a... We work together. Air traffic control will often suggest, hey, try heading 180. It looks like a lot of people are getting through that way. That's a suggested heading to avoid some of this weather. I did not hear that on any of these conversations. Not to say it didn't happen some point before, but I have not heard any suggested headings to avoid some of these thunderstorms. The one thing that I did hear was the fact that air traffic control Gave the airplane the free will to deviate to the left, but they said no more to the right because of other air traffic. So to the left, you actually had a lot more active weather. To the right would have been a better setup, but it's one of those situations where the pilot really has to follow ATC or air traffic control unless you can declare an emergency and say, because of weather, I'm going to be turning 180 and you just do it and they'll move other people out of the way.