aero junkie: on what facts do you base that comment on?
In the news over the years..
Oct 2000
SAS grounds all planes of type Dash8/Q400 after a long series of instrumental problems.
SAS Q400s are out of service pending inspection of pitot/static system after an aircraft landed at Copenhagen with no speed or height information.
Jan 01
SAS Commuter and Bombardier work together to fix on going Dash Q400 problems.
Feb 01
Scandinavian carrier SAS Commuter is to ground all of its Canadian built turbo prop planes beacause of recurring inflight technical problems.
Jan 02
All Q400 grounded due to a crack found in main landing gear. This is after multiple problems with the fleet, including many unsafe gears, uplocked gear, hydraulic leaks and losses of quantity in one system, many faults related to vibration, parts of structure fallen off in flight, excessive wear on hoses, uplock hooks.
Sas examines 21 dash 8 Q400 planes for possible bolt defects.
Jan 03
An SAS (SK) Dash 8 Q400 had to make an emergency landing in Stavanger.
SAS Commuter had to ground it’s Dash8 Q400 fleet after several instances of false smoke warnings from the cargo hold resulting in multiple emergency landings.
Sep 07
Many SAS flights cancelled due to technical faults.
Sep 07
SAS Dash 8 Q400 makes emergency landing in Denmark due to landing gear failure.