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SAS Blue1 Flight Turned Back In Finland
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Monday, 17 September 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) |
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