11 passengers taken to hospital after SAS plane makes emergency landing in Denmark

[Naim 6]

Saw the footage on telly - quite spectacular. Try to catch it.

 

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11 passengers taken to hospital after SAS plane makes emergency landing in Denmark

 

The Associated Press

Sunday, September 9, 2007

 

 

COPENHAGEN, Denmark: A Scandinavian Airlines System aircraft caught fire after making an emergency landing at Aalborg's airport Sunday, police said.

 

All 73 passengers and four crew members were evacuated safely before one of the engines caught fire. Police constable Peter Bruun said 11 passengers were taken to a local hospital to be treated for minor injuries.

 

"The right wheel broke when the plane landed," Bruun said. "The right engine caught fire but it was extinguished rapidly by the firemen."

 

The pilot made the decision to make the emergency landing after dumping fuel — a standard safety precaution — and informing the Aalborg airport tower about the problems with one of the landing gears.

 

Moments after landing, the aircraft tipped over on one side. The wing and right engine hit the runway and the aircraft turned sharply before stopping. One propeller broke loose and entered the cabin.

 

The aircraft was a Q400 turboprop that had taken off from Copenhagen's international airport for the short domestic flight to Aalborg in northern Jutland.

 

Scandinavian Airlines, or SAS, is the joint flag carrier of Sweden, Denmark and Norway.

 

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/09/09/...ncy-Landing.php

[Ignatius 4]

Lots of emergency landing incidents lately ehhhh... <_>

[BC Tam 2]

"..... One propeller broke loose and entered the cabin"

Oh yikes !

[Jerry Ang 0]

Lots of emergency landing incidents lately ehhhh... <_>

 

Something missing lah tu...

[Adrian M 0]

Saw the footage on CNN

 

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/200...rash.landing.ap

 

Horrifying~!

 

I guess one or two of the propeller pierced through the fuselage as four seen launch to the air and fall afterwards

Edited September 10, 2007 by Adrian M

[Ignatius 4]

Something missing lah tu...

 

TQ for reminding me, King Wallaper of SZB kekekeke

[Chan CS 0]

Herm, next time will try to avoid seat near the propeller...

[Romizi 0]

I saw the video this afternoon on TV3..

I would said the pilot did such a great job..

Reported that the pilot has declare an emergency landing.. plus acknowledged tower that they had gear problem before landing..

huhuhuhu... scary me all the way when heard those propellers hit the cabin... my god..!!

[Louis L. 2]

...looks somehow scary for me...

[Pieter C. 5]

LN-RDK is the bird and was enroute CPH-AAL...

[Y C LEONG 1]

SK's dash8 to LCY yesterday morning was cancelled from CPH with a tech fault reported on the aircraft.. lunch time CPH arrived with 1 hour delay but tech upon landing so outbound was canx.. horrible day for SK in LCY yesterday..

[Adrian M 0]

Up close shot of the plane. Finally can stand on it's own.

 

 

 

[BC Tam 2]

In this case, it's obvious the fuselage reinforcement has failed in its intended purpose. Was anyone hurt (specifically) by the blades ?

[Adrian M 0]

In this case, it's obvious the fuselage reinforcement has failed in its intended purpose. Was anyone hurt (specifically) by the blades ?

 

SAS Q400 damage assessed after Aalborg landing gear incident

By David Kaminski-Morrow

 

Scandinavian Airlines expects to complete a series of special inspections on its Bombardier Q400 fleet within four days following the main-gear collapse on one of the type during touchdown at Aalborg.

 

The carrier has been holding talks over the accident with Bombardier and says that the airframer has confirmed that the events at Aalborg had not previously occurred with any Q400.

 

“Although this must be regarded as an isolated incident, SAS has decided to implement a number of extraordinary checks of the landing-gear on the entire fleet of Q400 aircraft,” says the airline. “These checks are additional to official requirements.”

 

While the inspection work will take four days to complete, the airline says it is not expecting any disruption to its scheduled operations.

 

Scandinavian Airlines’ Danish division says it is too early to determine whether the Q400 involved in the 9 September incident will be repaired. A spokeswoman says that the damage is still being assessed.

 

 

According to Danish news source DR, the SAS aircraft circled the airport for an hour prior to landing to spend fuel. This followed an indicator warning the flight crew that the starboard mainwheel was not locked.

 

Prior to landing rows 6, 7, and 8, those nearest the starboard propeller, were evacutated. However five passengers reportedly suffered light injuries when propeller parts entered the cabin.

 

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2007/...r-incident.html

[Pieter C. 5]

This message was received by a Danish spotter working at CPH-airport this morning:

 

All,

 

another SAS Dash 8-Q400 suffered an incident/accident this morning at 01.48 local time (22.48 UTC) at Vilnius, Lithuania.

The aircraft, enroute from Copenhagen to Palanga, like the accident on Sunday, had a malfunctioning right main gear. This was discovered prior to landing at Palanga and after circling for 20 mins, trying to solve the problem, the crew decided to divert to the bigger airport of Vilnius.

First reports are sketchy, but it is mentioned that all 48 pax and crew evacuated safely after "the aircraft landed on one wheel and the faulty wheel failed" as one passenger reports to the Swedish news agency TT.

Extent of damage to the aircraft LN-RDS is not known.

 

As the circumstances are very similar to the situation leading to the accident at Aalborg airport on Sunday, SAS Group have decided to ground all Dash 8-Q400 aircraft. This affects both SAS Commuter and Wideroe.

 

Rgds

Jan Broe

EKCH ATC

[Pieter C. 5]

SAS Grounds Dash 8s After 2nd Crash Landing

 

September 12, 2007

Scandinavian Airlines grounded its entire fleet of Dash 8 turboprop planes and cancelled more than 100 flights after a second crash landing in four days.

 

An SAS plane with 52 people on board crash landed in Lithuania on Wednesday after the landing gear on the DHC-8-400 aircraft failed. Nobody was injured.

 

Another landing gear failure caused a similar SAS aircraft with 73 people on board to crash land on Sunday in Denmark, also without casualties.

 

SAS and its Wideroe subsidiary grounded their fleet of 27 Dash 8-400 aircraft until they can be inspected.

 

"If they are able to handle these problems through maintenance, the worst case scenario is they would lose SEK10 million Swedish kronor (USD$1.5 million) per day," said Jacob Pedersen, an analyst at Sydbank. "That's about half of a percent of what I expect SAS to earn pretax for the whole year.

 

"But they need to deal with this kind of fast. If they have to lease other planes there could be other costs. And if they have to change the whole landing gear on these planes it's an entirely different situation. That would be a very large bill."

 

The Dash 8-400 twin-engined turboprop is produced by Canada's Bombardier and can seat between 68 and 78 passengers.

 

SAS said Bombardier recommended that all Dash 8-400 planes worldwide with more than 10,000 landing gear cycles be grounded until inspections are carried out.

 

Aviation regulators in Denmark, Sweden and Norway also ruled that SAS's Dash 8-400 planes must not fly until they can be inspected.

 

"We grounded these planes immediately after this. Now we will conduct an investigation," said Anders Lundblad, a spokesman for the Swedish Civil Aviation Authority. "How long it will last, I guess we'll have a discussion with SAS about that."

 

(Reuters)

 

Bombardier Calls For Grounding Of Older Q400s

 

September 12, 2007

Bombardier said on Wednesday it recommended that Q400 aircraft with more than 10,000 landing gear cycles be grounded until an inspection is carried out after two crashes involving landing gear.

 

The Canada-based company said there were about 60 Q400 aircraft with more than 10,000 landing gear cycles. A cycle is one take-off and landing. Bombardier said it has delivered more than 160 Q400 aircraft to airlines around the world.

 

Bombardier, the world's third-largest manufacturer of civilian aircraft, said Transport Canada has been briefed on these recent events, and it is working with TC to establish the requirement for further possible corrective action.

 

Bombardier's recommendation follows crashes in Denmark on Sunday and in Lithuania on Wednesday. No one was seriously injured in either crash, according to officials.

 

"Until such time as investigations are concluded by the relevant aviation authorities, Bombardier cannot speculate or comment as to the cause of these incidents," the company said in a statement.

 

The Q400 turboprop can seat between 68 and 78 passengers, depending on configuration.

 

(Reuters)

 

[Kee Hooi Yen 0]

http://au.news.yahoo.com//070913/2/14eze.html

Thursday September 13, 03:57 PM

Qantas grounds most of Bombardier Q400s

Qantas has grounded some of its turboprop aircraft which fly routes in regional Queensland, as well as the Canberra to Sydney service, after landing gear problems with the same planes in Europe.

 

The airline said it had inspected seven of its Bombardier Q400 aircraft - also known as the Dash 8-400 - following an airworthiness directive from the Civil Aviation and Safety Authority (CASA) and Transport Canada.

 

Qantas spokesman Narendra Kumar said one of the 72-seater aircraft had been cleared and was operating as normal.

 

"The remaining six are about to start the necessary work to enable them to return to service as soon as possible," he said in a statement.

 

"Safety remains paramount at Qantas and we will not operate any of these aircraft until we are completely satisfied that there are no safety issues."

 

Canadian aircraft maker Bombardier on Wednesday recommended Q-400 planes which have completed more than 10,000 flights be grounded after the aircraft was involved in two emergencies in less than a week.

 

On Wednesday, a Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) Q-400 in Lithuania made an emergency landing with a landing gear problem.

 

Three days earlier, another of the aircraft crashed in Denmark when its landing gear collapsed during touchdown.

 

Qantas said the aircraft in QantasLink's Q-400 fleet had each accumulated less than 5,000 landing cycles.

 

"The aircraft involved in the incidents overseas are older model aircraft, with each aircraft having in excess of 14,000 cycles accumulated," Mr Kumar said.

 

The grounding of the planes, including those on the busy Canberra to Sydney service, came as federal parliament was about to rise for the week, prompting an exodus of parliamentary staffers and politicians from the capital.

 

Mr Kumar said an extensive contingency plan was being put in place to replace the Q400 on affected routes.

 

"We are doing everything we can to minimise any inconvenience to passengers," he said.

 

The remainder of QantasLink's fleet of 40 aircraft was not affected and was operating as normal, Qantas said.

 

[Adrian M 0]

Hopefully it's not a design defects. But Q400 already involved in too many landing gear accidents...

[Pieter C. 5]

ANA Suspends All Bombardier Flights

 

September 13, 2007

All Nippon Airways said on Thursday it had suspended all flights using 14 Q400 aircraft made by Bombardier after the Canadian government said the craft must be inspected.

 

Bombardier asked airlines worldwide on Wednesday to ground 60 of its turboprop planes for inspections after landing gear failures forced two planes to make crash landings in the last couple of days.

 

ANA suspended 19 flights on Thursday morning and does not know when it will resume services using Q400s, ANA spokeswoman Keiko Ninomiya said.

 

Japan Airlines said it had grounded all 10 of its aircraft of the same model earlier in the day but some are now up and flying after having been inspected. The airline suspended flights using three aircraft on Wednesday.

 

Japan has a total of 24 of the aircraft concerned, an official at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said.

 

(Reuters)

 

[Pieter C. 5]

All,

 

for those interested in this side of the story, the first Preliminary Statement from the Danish AIB (called HCLJ) regarding SAS Dash 8-Q400 LN-RDK's accident at Aalborg on Sunday has been uploaded to their website:

http://www.hcl.dk/sw146730.asp

 

(Havarikommissionen)

 

[Adrian M 0]

The report is saying corrosion problem, so could be SAS Maintenancle fault instead of overall design defects. I think it's make sense since CPH is saltwater environment. Corrosion is highly probable cause relating to the environment.

[Pieter C. 5]

Some other negative SAS news, all be it a subsidiary airline:

 

SAS Blue1 Flight Turned Back In Finland

 

September 14, 2007

Scandinavian Airlines' Finnish unit Blue1 said a domestic flight from Helsinki to Kuopio in eastern Finland turned back on Friday after problems with the hatch of the landing gear.

 

The incident followed two crash-landings this week involving the landing gear of SAS Dash 8-400 aircraft. The Nordic carrier has grounded its fleet of the Canadian-made planes, which make up 10 percent of its aircraft.

 

Blue1 said Friday's incident involved a different type of plane -- an Avro regional jet. "There was no danger for the 17 passengers and 4 crew on the board," Blue1 spokesman Tom Christides said.

 

"The problem was the hatch of the landing gear, not the gear itself. Also it was a completely different aircraft," he said.

 

An SAS turboprop made by Canada's Bombardier made an emergency landing on Wednesday in Lithuania. Another SAS Dash 8-400 crash-landed in Denmark on Sunday in a similar incident.

 

(Reuters)

 

[Pieter C. 5]

SAS Q400s Grounded For At Least Another Week

 

September 25, 2007

Scandinavian airline SAS said on Tuesday it expected its fleet of Dash 8-400 aircraft to remain grounded for at least another week after crash landings earlier this month due to undercarriage failures.

 

"We estimate that the required inspections and replacements of components will keep our Q400 (aircraft) on the ground for at least another week," SAS said in a statement.

 

SAS, which has cancelled hundreds of flights since September 12, has said grounding the 27 planes, made by Canadian firm Bombardier, costs up to SEK15 million kronor per day.

 

Last week, the Danish Civil Aviation Administration (CAA) said the flight ban on SAS's Dash 8-400 aircraft would be lifted gradually as each plane is inspected.

 

The CAA currently holds the rotating chairmanship of Scandinavian aviation authorities, which also include Sweden and Norway. Half of SAS is owned by the governments of Sweden, Denmark and Norway.

 

(Reuters)

 

[Pieter C. 5]

SAS To Resume Dash 8 Flights

 

September 28, 2007

Scandinavian airline SAS said on Friday it planned to restart flights using its Dash 8 Q400 planes on October 4.

 

SAS has been forced to cancel hundreds of flights because its fleet of Dash 8 Q400 aircraft have been grounded after two SAS planes crash-landed due to undercarriage problems.

 

"SAS will deploy the first Q400 aircraft on Thursday, October 4, with the remaining Q400 aircraft returning to operation during the following days," the company said in a statement.

 

(Reuters)

 

[KK Lee 5]

 

SAS grounds planes in safety fear

 

Scandinavian airline SAS is to permanently stop flying Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 planes after several emergencies caused by landing gear problems.

 

The decision came after a plane carrying 44 people from Bergen, Norway, to Copenhagen made an emergency landing in Denmark on Saturday.

 

Nobody was seriously injured in the incident, the third involving an SAS Bombardier Q400 in two months.

 

The SAS board decided to "immediately discontinue" using the planes.

 

"Confidence in the Q400 has diminished considerably and our customers are becoming increasingly doubtful about flying in this type of aircraft," said chief executive Mats Jansson.

 

And the airline's deputy chief executive, John Dueholm, said the Dash 8-Q400 had seen "repeated quality-related problems".

 

"SAS's flight operations have always enjoyed an excellent reputation and there is a risk that use of the Dash 8-400 could eventually damage the SAS brand," he said.

 

Lease replacements

 

The airline operates 27 of the 8-400s, which are used on many Nordic regional routes and for connections to destinations including the UK, Germany, Poland and Luxembourg.

 

SAS said that since it began using the planes in 2000, they had accounted for about 5% of all passengers carried.

 

The carrier, which had already cancelled more than 40 flights on Sunday after the Copenhagen incident, said it was inevitable that there would now be more flights shelved.

 

It would look to fill the gap in schedules by reallocating planes in its current fleet and by leasing aircraft, it said.

 

In September, Bombardier grounded almost half of its Q400 turboprop planes after equipment failures forced emergency landings of SAS planes in Denmark and Lithuania.

 

At the time of the move, the Montreal-based company said that the groundings were a "precautionary measure", adding it believed its aircraft were "absolutely safe and reliable".

 

The Q400 turboprop - which carries between 68 and 78 passengers - has been in use since 2000, and more than 160 of the planes have been delivered around the world.

 

In March, an All Nippon Airways Q400 plane carrying 56 passengers and four crew landed safely after its nose gear failed to descend.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7066377.stm