Lasiana_beach

Yes, all flights with Dash 8 have now been grounded by the Danish minister of transportation.

Tor Viking

I wonder if Qantas is going to have second thoughts now....hmm?
http://www.qantas.com.au/regions/dyn...007/oct07/3672

Wilbur12

Must have been able to negotiate a good price eh ?

I wonder what airline this is...

European Airline Orders 10 Bombardier Q400 Turboprops
Tuesday October 23, 10:02 am ET


TORONTO, ONTARIO--(MARKET WIRE)--Oct 23, 2007 -- Bombardier Aerospace announced today that it has received a signed firm order for 10 Bombardier Q400 high-speed turboprop airliners. The transaction also includes options on 10 additional Q400 airliners. The European airline which placed the order will become a new operator of the Q400 airliner, and has requested to remain unidentified at this time.

Wilbur12

Buy some Sukhoi's

http://www.sukhoi.org/eng/planes/projects/rrj/

Tor Viking

With lots and lots of spare parts.....

LeSabre74

I doubt it. For some reason this seems to be a problem only SAS is having with the Q400.

lnixon

According to Dagens Nyheter, Skandinaviska Tillsynskontoret (the joint Scandinavian aviation authority) has withdrawn the operation license for all SAS Q400:s, effective immediately.

Oops.

SK_RSJ

Press release out a few minutes ago:


Scandinavian Airlines regrets to confirm that one of its aircraft, a Dash 8- 400 with registration number LN-RDI and flight number SK 2867 from Bergen to Copenhagen was involved in an accident at Copenhagen airport , at 16.55 hrs local time today.



We can confirm that there were 38 passengers, 2 infants and 4 crewmembers onboard.



Prior to the accident problems with the main landing gear was reported.



All Dash 8-400 aircraft within the SAS Group will be grounded until further notice.



SAS is doing everything possible to help all passengers.



SAS will provide further information as soon as it becomes available, see

www.flysas.com





The media information center can be contacted at the following number:

+46 8 797 29 44

SK_RSJ

http://webbtv.dn.se/index.aspx?id=2912

gnaget

SAS was the launch customer for the 400 series and the problem is corrosion. So climate and time naturally leads to the first problems merging with SAS's aircraft. ANA reported finding the same problems and there was an incident a month ago with Augsburg Airways.

oliver2002

Beautiful landing ^^ I guess all Q400 pilots sim practiced landing with one gear during the time they were grounded to prepare for future incidents.

SK_RSJ

Pretty amazing video, you can see exactly when the pilot turns off the right engine. Also it looks like the right landing gear is not extracted at all? The previous incidents had extracted gear but lock problem, yeah?

herro

Must agree - the landing really good and the motor was shut down perfctly. looks better than the normal landings with the Q400.... And this is really to bad that this will impact SAS again. It will impact on all us FT's travelling intra EU with SAS.

/HerrO

TTL

Despite that, would you (or any other at this forum) be flying any Dash-400 flight after this third or fourth, similar incident? There were no casualties, luckily, but what has been reported, someone did get hurt. At what point can a plane type loose its certifications?

GreatDane

NO I would NOT fly that type. This must be a warning of things to come as SAS was the launch customer for this aircraft type. And amazingly bombardier does not make any recommendations to ground the aircraft: www.bombardier.com.
Pretty irresponsible if you ask me.