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SAS Dash8-Q400 Emergency landing

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EHM-1953 Daniel:
and anotherone has done exact the same thing! but this time the pilot shut of the right engine, and landed on the left wheel as far as i'm concerned.. but how can this happen twice? and it's not an old aircraft is it?

EHM-0361 Karsten:
I seen in the papers and the news the last few days that SAS was warned two years ago that something like could happen. And prior to the crash landing at Aalborg, they had a number of incidences. And I guess there's a reason why that type have been nicknamed "crash 8."
I guess the positive thing is, after the last crash land that SAS now has decided to ground the rest of the DASH 8 fleet until they have all been checked.

On a lighter note, let's hope it doesn't start to happen to our DASH 8. Because then there is really something wrong with that model :]

EHM-1703 Philip:
Well the Bomabrdier has recommended that Q400's with over 10,000 cycles are grounded for gear checks.... FLYBE here in the UK has grounded  6 of its Q400 fleet (according to Wikipedia they have 33 on their books at the moment with a further 27 on order) for checks which have already been completed and all planes will be back in service later today.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601082&sid=aE4y.WGJwJqg&refer=canada

EHM-1651 Christian:
The civil avaiotion authorties in Denmark, Sweden and Norway has grounded all Dash8-Q400 from flight within these countries until the cause of the accidents is clearified, this include all aircraft both below and above 10.000cycles. On the homepage of the Norwegian Civil Avaition Authority it's states that aslo EASA consideres grounding all Dash8-Q400 aircraft. This will then affect all operators within the European Union.

Having a severe impact on flybe's operation in UK, LH regionals Augsburg Airways and several other operators having large number of these aircraft in their fleet.

EHM-0361 Karsten:
I have just seen on the danish news that another SAS Dash 8-Q400, a few hours ago has made a emergency landing at Kastrup Airport (EKCH). Once again the landing gear broke just after landing. But this time it seem like the landing was more controlled and there was no fire and this time the prop stayed intact

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