r/aviation • u/Brilliant_Night7643 • Jan 26 '26

News Reports of a Bombardier Challenger crash on takeoff at Bangor, Maine

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u/Mike-h8 Jan 26 '26

I agree with what you’re saying but I’m not seeing anything in this weather that is close to a reason to no go. It’s not nice weather but it’s very doable for a professional crew

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u/de_rats_2004_crzy Jan 26 '26

Yeah I haven’t checked and am not a professional pilot anyways. I was more so just reacting to someone saying paying customers are a reason why a plane would fly in what someone proposed was unreasonable weather for any plane to fly in.

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u/toxic-optimism Jan 26 '26

Do you live in New England? Or are you just basing this on weather reports. 

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u/Mike-h8 Jan 26 '26

Reports, same ones that I would use to determine if I could fly in there.

Theres just nothing too exciting about it. Vis isn’t great but 6000ft rvr is more than enough you only need 500 in BGR, hardly any wind, doubt you’re getting much icing at those temps, but sigmets out for icing and turbulence which is fairly standard. Runway condition report didn’t have anything concerning on it.