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Usually at -47C it is too cold for this to happen but speculators have said this may be supercooled liquid coming up from the lower thunderstorm.
Happy for people to comment if any of this is wrong. I am not a pilot or aircraft engineer or fluid mechanic etc.
My layman's idea of how hard to get rid of ice: try cleaning your freezer of built up ice or chuck a massive block of ice in the sun and see how many hours it takes to melt. Snowmen can survive a sunny few days after the snow.
However that does open space for free software plus pay for supporting it. Good example would be WPEngine maybe. You can easily move from them to someone else if you use WP. Not so easy to move from Jira to something else because then the software changes.
Yeah will have to wait a year or two to find out the cause.
I'll just say I wonder why they flew in that weather system at all. From watching too many accidents on YT I am guessing with private aviation there is more pressure to get it done.
On flight radar where I live if there is a fraction of the thunder storms the sky is a ghost town and they will delay departures from other airports say 1hr flight away to wait it out.
1-90: Time needed for bathtub scene to explain this shit