Dash 8-Q400 landing gear collapses
SAS had a second landing gear collapse last night at Vilnius and has now decided to ground the entire fleet of the type.
Bombardier has requested that all Dash 8-Q400s with 10,000 or more cycles be grounded, pending checks.
Roughtly how many of BE's Dash 8s would be near this level?
G-JEDI was delivered in Oct 2001, so assuming a utilisation rate of 2,000h* per year (which is pretty conservative), it should have exceeded this, same with other earlier aircraft, such as 'JEDJ,K,L?
Presumably the CAA will be in touch with with Flybe and Bombardier about this over the next few days.
(Cycles would probably be in excess of hours, because of relatively short sector lengths, so this could potentially effect a considerably larger number of BE acft).
Last edited by akerosid; 12th Sep 2007 at 06:27.
Reason: Clarification