Regional Jet 700 ER/LR (CRJ700)
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Other / Unknown
Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical; Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence
Flight Crew Returned To Departure Airport; General Maintenance Action; General Declared Emergency
Weather; Procedure; Aircraft
[We had an] anti-ice failure after takeoff in icing conditions after two previous write-ups by same Captain on same aircraft the day before. Pencil-whipped after two previous write-ups and signed off a critical safety system requiring an emergency air-return. Captain previously put on a maintenance 'list' for too many write-ups and this fact complicated his outlook regarding this aircraft's problems.
CRJ700 Captain experiences an anti-ice failure after takeoff in an aircraft that had been written up twice previously for the same problem. An emergency is declared and flight returns to departure airport.