tyrael37

http://airlinersgallery.blogspot.com...dhc-8-400.html

SAS permanently retires the DHC-8-400!
from AirlinersGallery.com - Airline News by Airliners Gallery
Scandinavian Airlines-SAS (Stockholm) today (October 28) in an extraordinary board of directors meeting decided to never return the Bombardier DHC-8-402s (Q400) to revenue service following the third accident yesterday. The fleet is permanently retired and will be sold! The terse statement by SAS read as follows "Confidence in the Q400 has diminished considerably and our customers are becoming increasingly doubtful about flying in this type of aircraft." This is a very strong statement from what was the launch customer of the type in January 2000 and will probably hurt future sales efforts by Bombardier. The airline will continue to cancel Q400 flights but will endeavor to reallocate current aircraft in the SAS group to the Q400 routes and also by means of leasing additional aircraft. What are the chances of seeing Scandinavian Commuter ATR 72s in the future?

I wonder what SkyWest Inc. will do in light of the "retirement" of the ATR-72s? Guess ASA will be keeping them for another 3 years?!

samiboy05

Horizon air, and I think Colgan Air Q400 fleet coming soon...........

cbire880

If it is local maint procedure causing it, you can bet Bombardier will be doing everything they can to find the cause and assign blame. If not, they are going to lose an entire product line.

s10an

This was supposed to be the eight accident this fall..

Pilot41

And Lynx, haven't even started flying yet.

saab2000

I wish the SAAB2000 were still on the market.

Clue32

Flew on a couple of Saab 2000s from Munich to Constanta, Romania. Very nice aircraft from a pax point of view. Hurt by the RJ emergence and product line was halted when oil was still cheap. Would be a good fit in the market now though.

Flyboy8784

Unfortunatley Bombardier has been well known for a horrible Mx Division and Mx Customer Service. I use to teach Ground School and Sim on Bombardier Aircraft, Most emergency stories told by the recurrent crews had to do after the plane was leaving MX at Bombardier. With SAS retiring the fleet..i hope they can get their game faces on and solve whatever problems this fleet is having.

freezingflyboy

Heeeey Colgan...I know where you can get some Q400s CHEAP

CubCAPTAIN

that looked like a really nice landing. looks like he helped keep it straight with full reverse on the left engine