Ebersol Jet Crash Investigators Checking Into Similarities of 2002 Crash

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MONTROSE, Colo. (AP) - Investigators probing the crash of the jet that killed NBC sports executive Dick Ebersol's son and two other people are studying the deadly January 2002 crash of a similar plane in England under nearly the same conditions.
The crash of the CL-600 Challenger jet in Birmingham, England, killed five people and it also happened in freezing temperatures. The plane was not de-iced, banked heavily seconds after takeoff and burst into flames as it crashed.

The crash report from the British Department of Transport said the "pilots should have been aware of wing frost during pre-flight preparations but the aircraft was not de-iced and the ice detector system would not have alerted them."

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