SAS's Crash-8's sold?

[Paul K]

From the BBC News home page:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7066377.stm

I flew in FlyBe's G-JECO last year, and encountered no problems at all...other than the captain asking us to stand in the aisle and jump up and down a couple of times on finals.

[DanKH]

Are the Q400's opperated by a specific division... i.e. like a commuter division?

Yes they all belong to the SAS Commuter division:


Most thing regarding the fleet can be found on the flightOps site:

http://www.sasflightops.com/

[nigelb]

I flew in FlyBe's G-JECO last year, and encountered no problems at all...other than the captain asking us to stand in the aisle and jump up and down a couple of times on finals.

Did it work?

[Paul K]

Must have done. There was a bit of a clunk then he said "Okay, panic over, you can all sit down again". ;-)

[Motormouse]

Bombardier doesn't seem to like SAS's decision (I wonder why :think: )

http://www.bombardier.com/index.jsp?id= ... _0/0_0.jsp

Dan,its' seen as a BF Goodrich problem (they designed and make the landing gear) rather than a Bombardier one;
the Bombardier Customer Service team are coming to meet our course on Thursday, mainly to cover
the CL604/605 and CRJ series (wot I'm learning about) but I bet someone brings up the Dash

ttfn

Pete

[TSR2]

The gear is originally Dowty (now BF through acquisition) ;-)

[Garry Russell]

Within hours it was being suggested this latest icident was not related to the earlier failures.

This seems to confirm that

http://aviation-safety.net/news/newsitem.php?id=1929

I doubt that this knowledge would improve potential SAS passeneger's perception of the type as a whole making the airlines decision to end operations with the type still valid. :think:

Garry

[DanKH]

You are absolutely right there Garry.

I don't think we will see a Dash-8 in SAS livery for next many months/years. The customers anxiety is too much to risk. Even though the latest incident has no relation to the others, the result of the O-ring failure was very similar to the collapsed gears.... even though they were caused by completely different matters.

That is not easily explained to Mr. and Mrs. Smith I an way so they will feel relaxed next time they are about to board a Dash-8..... So it is my firm believe that SAS' decision stands.... for a very long time.

[TSR2]

Dan... any news on what they will be using in the mean time.... I know of some 146's that are available

[DanKH]

They have spread out the routes to the subcontractors/codeshares they have mostly. That's the most recent I know.