Bombardier mette a terra sessanta aerei Q400

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BBCNEWS Wednesday, 12 September 2007, 11:49 GMT 12:49 UK

The UK airline Flybe has grounded six of its Bombardier Q400 turboprop aircraft while safety checks are carried out on their landing gear.
The move comes after the landing gear on two Q400s owned by the Scandinavian airline SAS collapsed on touch down. No passengers were hurt.

The manufacturer has also asked for 60 of these aircraft to be grounded for safety checks.

The Flybe routes affected include those serving Edinburgh, Belfast and Gatwick.

Other affected routes include services from the Isle of Man, Manchester, Southampton and the Channel Islands.

The first landing gear collapse happened to an SAS aircraft at Aalborg, Denmark on Sunday. The second happened on Wednesday at Vilnius, Lithuania, as an SAS flight landed.

SAS said that it was grounding these planes and cancelling 112 flights.

Bombardier and Goodrich, the landing gear manufacturer, has now asked for 60 of the aircraft operating around the world to be grounded until an inspection of the landing gear is carried out.

In July, a Flybe Bombardier Q400 with 36 people on board had to make an emergency landing in Edinburgh when crew members were forced to shut down one of its two turboprop engines.

 

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SAS grounds its Bombardier turboprops
By Kevin Done in London
Published: September 12 2007 21:09 | Last updated: September 12 2007 21:09

SAS Scandinavian Airlines on Wednesday grounded its entire fleet of 27 Bombardier Q400 turboprop aircraft following two accidents in four days in which the landing gear collapsed.

The move came as Canada’s Bombardier, the world’s third largest maker of commercial aircraft, recommended that all operators of older Q400s – aircraft which have accumulated more than 10,000 take-off and landing cycles – should ground the aircraft until they could be inspected.

Bombardier said that it had delivered more than 160 Q400s, of which about 60 had gone through more than 10,000 cycles.

The grounding will come as a blow to Bombardier. Turboprops have regained popularity in the last couple of years due to the surge in oil prices and their much greater fuel efficiency over shorter distances.

Bombardier, which also makes regional and corporate jets, is one of the leading manufacturers of turboprops. It shares the market with ATR, a joint venture between EADS and Finmeccanica.

The leading operators of Q400s include Flybe of the UK, SAS, Horizon Air in the US, Japan’s All Nippon Airways and Qantas.

Flybe is the biggest operator with 33 in service and a further 37 on order, but most of its fleet are younger aircraft with only six affected by the grounding order.

The two accidents with SAS aircraft occurred on Sunday at Aalborg, Denmark and Wednesday morning at Vilnius, Lithuania.

The 27 aircraft represent about 10 per cent of the SAS group fleet. The airline said the financial impact would amount to SKr10m-SKr15m ($1.5m-$2.2m) a day while the aircraft were grounded.

It said it did not know how long the grounding would be in effect, but the group was planning to lease extra aircraft capacity to mitigate the impact on passengers.

It said that prior to Sunday’s accident, problems with the aircraft’s main landing gear had been identified, and the pilots had prepared for an emergency landing. The right main gear collapsed after landing. Of 69 passengers and four crew, five were lightly injured. There were no injuries in the accident at Vilnius.

SAS said none of its 27 Q400s would be released for operations until the inspections had been carried out.

Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2007

 

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hanno spaventato un po' tutti sti due incidente della SAS

Bombardier mette a terra sessanta aerei Q400

Dopo l'incidente che ha coinvolto un Q400 della Sas che aveva superato i mille cicli di volo, il costruttore canadese Bombardier ha comunicato ai suoi clienti di mettere a terra questo tipo di velivolo per un supplemento di controllo. Sas ha così fermato i 27 Q400 in flotta, mentre gli altri clienti che hanno dovuto fermare questo tipo di aerombile sono stati Horizon Air con 15 esemplari, Austrian con sei, Augsburg Airways con cinque, Flybe con quattro e Jal con tre. Bombardier, che in un solo giorno ha perso il 5% del suo valore alla Borsa di Toronto, ha detto che "si tratta solo di misure precauzionali". Sono 160 i Q400 che Bombardier ha già consegnato. TTG ITALIA

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