Goodpic,
You have an airline, that is flying a new type for them for less as 3 months.
Has an fleet of 4 types in total 11 units. With 2 runway excursions in 12 months.
And a **** load of other incidents...
Take them and an above normal windy evening.... and this is what happens... Luckily all can tell.. it has all ingredients for a good stew.
But you are right, let's wait 3,5 years until the Romanians and Italians have their final report. Pilota errore, or how do you write that in Italian...
24JAN2013: Alitalia replaces Carpatair on Ancona route after incident
Alitalia (AZ, Rome Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International (FCO)) has temporarily replaced wet-lease operator Carpatair (V3, Timisoara Traian Vuia International (TSR)) on its route from Rome Fiumicino to Ancona Falconara (AOI). This follows an incident involving an ATR 72-500 of Carpatair on January 17 where the aircraft had to return back to Ancona for an emergency landing due to a problem with its airconditioning system. A similar problem had already developed on a flight on January 7 leading to another flight having to return back to Pisa. Alitalia is now temporarily using EMB-175s of subsidiary Alitalia CityLiner (CT, Rome Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International (FCO)) on the route until the cause of the incidents has been identified. Carpatair continues to operate its second ATR 72-500 on behalf of Alitalia between Rome Fiumicino and Pisa Galileo Galilei International (PSA) and has asked Avions de Transport Régional (Toulouse Blagnac (TLS)) for assistance in the investigation of two incidents.
01FEB2013: Carpatair resumes full Alitalia wet-lease operations
Carpatair (V3, Timisoara Traian Vuia International (TSR)) has again resumed operations with its second ATR 72-500 operating on a wet-lease contract for Alitalia (AZ, Rome Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International (FCO)) now operating three daily services from Rome Fiumicino to both Bologna Guglielmo Marconi (BLQ) and Pisa Galileo Galilei International (PSA) on behalf of its Italian partner. Alitalia subsidiary Alitalia CityLiner (CT, Rome Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International (FCO)) will continue to operate between Rome and Ancona Falconara (AOI) going forward where it had replaced Carpatair from mid-January following an incident with one of the ATR 72-500's air conditioning system. Carpatair has meanwhile retired its last of a total of three Fokker 70s with YR-KMC (c/n 11569) also expected to join Australian charter carrier Alliance Airlines (QQ, Brisbane International (BNE)) shortly like the other two aircraft. Carpatair continues to operate two ATR 72-500s, a B737-300, three Fokker 100s and five Saab 2000s.
03FEB2013: Alitalia suspends Carpatair agreement following accident
Alitalia (AZ, Rome Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International (FCO)) has announced that it has temporarily suspended its wet-lease agreement with partner carrier Carpatair (V3, Timisoara Traian Vuia International (TSR)) following a runway excursion incident of ATR 72-500 YR-ATS (c/n 533) on arrival to Rome Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International (FCO) on February 2. Alitalia has wet-leased two ATR 72-500s from Carpatair for its domestic routes from Rome Fiumicino to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi (BLQ) and Pisa Galileo Galilei International (PSA).
Last edited by harriewillem; 3rd Feb 2013 at 21:38.