And while failing to clear snowy streets can doom a political career, solving the ice problem can make one.
On 28 November 2008, a Delta Airlines Boeing 777 suffered a similar ice problem while flying over the US.
The Corps is also tackling a growing ice problem, as the river freezes over in shallow sections, further impeding the flow of water.
"Tackling the growing ice problem is a major priority for the government and as a first step I will be asking our advisory council to look at this issue as their first work priority," Nash said at the time.
The assistant health minister, Fiona Nash, has previously said Australia can not "arrest our way out" of the ice problem, while a report on ice led by the former Victoria police chief commissioner Ken Lay recommended rehabilitation programs, rather than law enforcement, as a focus.
An application to the "crushed ice" problem is described.
The ice problem was linked to the deaths of 61,000 reindeer in 2013 and 20,000 in 2006 in Siberia. .
Even though they were unrelated to his stay in rehabilitation last season for alcohol and substance abuse, Fleury's off-ice problems led to problems that were partly responsible for the Rangers' plummet from first place in the conference, which they occupied as recently as Dec. 30.
Boeing has told airlines there is a risk of engine-icing problems on its new 747-8 and 787 Dreamliner planes with engines made by General Electric and urged 15 carriers to avoid flying them near high-level thunderstorms.
Mr. Ferris, 39, was flying a single-engine Piper Cherokee Six from Florida, where the family had been on vacation, to an airport near Keene, N.H., when he reported icing problems in Massachusetts.
