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SAS grounds all its Bombardier turboprops
By Kevin Done in London
(September 13th, 2007, page 18)

SAS Scandinavian Airlines yesterday 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
fleets are younger aircraft with only six affected by the grounding order.

The two accidents with SAS aircraft occurred on Sunday at Aalborg, Denmark and
yesterday 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 bow 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.