Last week, an attendant on a Frontier Airlines flight taking off from Nashville International Airport seen a significant amount of snow and ice on the plane’s wing as the plane was approaching the runway.
The flight reportedly returned to the gate where it was found that approximately a foot of snow and ice had not been cleared from the plane’s wing. The situation could have caused issues during takeoff and created an unsafe situation for passengers and crew.
The plane had reportedly gone through a de-icing process, but the firm responsible somehow failed to de-ice the wing.
Frontier Airlines confirmed the incident. The carrier added that it’s no longer working with the de-icing company that performed the job.
“Safety is our foremost priority and we’re very proud of our flight crew for identifying the issue and ensuring the matter was addressed before takeoff,” a spokesperson for Frontier Airlines stated in a statement.
A spokesperson for Trego/Dugan, the de-icing firm, has since commented on the incident in a statement obtained by the Tennessean.
“Nothing of this sort has happened in the past 50+ years and we have vigorously attacked the underlying circumstances to stop anything like this in the future.”
