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Title: SAS REMOVES DASH 8-Q400 FROM FLEET
Post by: EHM-1651 Christian on October 28, 2007, 10:19:56 pm

The board of Scandinavian Airlines has decided to withdraw the Dash 8-Q400 from service in all parts of the SAS group, after the last incident  at Copenhagen airport.
This means that SAS will stop flying this aircraft for good.

SAS PRESS RELEASE (http://se.yhp.waymaker.net/sasgroup/release.asp?id=155746)

Title: SAS REMOVES DASH 8-Q400 FROM FLEET
Post by: EHM-1883 Matt on October 28, 2007, 10:50:57 pm

Bit of a daring move, considering that SAS is responsible for 7 out of 12 accidents with this plane. Almost seems like SAS's fault rather than the planes themselves.

I'm not neccessarily saying SAS should be blamed for all this, and it's a bad idea to stop using this plane, I just think something seems wrong considering this plane was doing fine until the last two months where 7 incidents occured, all in the same airline.