EAGLE B1900's GROUNDED!!
 

Looks like eagle have found a whole lot more aircraft with cracks in the landing gear actuators, i think they'll be grounded until replacements can be sourced from the states. One was found wih a pool of hydraulic fluid under it last night. They spent all last night NDT testing the fleet and found more had cracks!:eek:

A quick look at the arrivals departures page on the AirNZ website shows plenty of Eagle flights still operating. There are however a lot of cancellations as well. Not a complete grounding of the fleet it would seem.

I believe all the flights still operating are the ones flown by the Air National J32s or the Vincent 1900D/C certainly they are the only eagle flights into and out of NZWB

lol...i am suprised they are still operating at 11am this morning there were 8 1900's on th grnd at hlz with plenty of crew around...looks like eagles staffing and lack of aircraft problems mite b fixed :}

haha tvnz have just reported the 1900's are grounded due to ruapehu erupting!!! typical media getting the story so wrong!

stupid di*!k heads!

http://nz.news.yahoo.com//070926/3/1tfp.html
Wednesday September 26, 02:46 PM
Air NZ grounds flights

Air New Zealand grounded about 60 flights to check 17 planes after a safety "issue" was found during routine inspection of an Eagle Air plane last night.

The Air NZ link carrier said engineers had identified "an issue" with an undercarriage component on a Beech 1900D aircraft.

About 1000 customers were affected by the cancellations.

Eagle Air said nine of the aircraft were back in service, while five required replacement parts and would be flying again within the next 48 hours.

The airline expected the rest of the fleet to be inspected by the end of the day.

In June, an Eagle Air Beechcraft 1900D made a belly landing at Blenheim airport when its landing gear failed to come down.

That landing was being investigated by both the transport Accident Investigation Commission and Eagle Air.

An Air New Zealand spokeswoman said the inspection was routine, and had nothing to do with the ongoing investigation into the June incident. The TAIC report into the Blenheim landing was still being prepared, she said.

Civil Aviation Authority has been notified of the fault.

A spokesman said it was routine for the authority to be advised when faults were uncovered, and the airline had acted prudently by grounding the fleet.

TV3 just showed an Air NSN Dash 8 and described it as a b1900 the same type involved in the wheels up at woody in regards to this.

yes, they descirbed them as the same plane? Im confused :ugh:

And then showed the Beech having the wheels up at WB?

Even my mum noticed they were different aeroplanes! ahah :ok:

Whoah, the Nelson boys won't like that one bit.

Good luck to the Ops team in HLZ. Couldn't have happened at a worse time.

No comment from sir.pratt yet....silenced by management??

1900 gear
 

C'mon, who hasn't had a gear 'hiccup' in the 1900?!:D

EAB-EAP are failry crappily built - EAQ, the ex US import, is alright - and it's been showing for donkeys. EAA - Air NZ's first - is still the best in the fleet!:ok:

When ya regularly throw the wheels into the breeze at 180kias at a simdge from the deck, spose ya gotta expect some get a bit 'worn'!!!:hmm:

Maybe Sir Pratt is too busy fixing undercarriage legs!:}

... or filling in the Mt Ruapehu crater !!