Bombardier-built plane's landing gear collapses

[PhD]

Source: CTV.ca

COPENHAGEN -- A Scandinavian Airlines turboprop carrying 44 people made a crash-landing in Denmark on Saturday, sliding down the runway on its belly after part of the landing gear on the Canadian-made plane collapsed.

No one was seriously injured in the accident, the third crash landing involving the airline's Bombardier-built Q400 turboprops in less than two months.

Scandinavian Airlines, or SAS, grounded its turboprops after Saturday's accident at the Copenhagen Airport "until further notice," the company said in a statement.

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[PSPS]

1. Also used by Horizon Air Lines, Q400's were grounded for this last month.

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/landing-accidents-force-canceled-flights/story.aspx?guid=%7B8A4B7FBD-4CA4-4838-8AA8-83F1F228CD75%7D

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

2. An Alaska Airlines pilot says the crashes in Europe are

because of shitty maintainence SAS is well known for and in 5 years they will have replaced their entire regional horizon fleet with the Q400.

[Trajan]

3. Wow .... Another Dash8-400 loses it's legs ....

Criminy .... I work on HUD systems for Dash8, which obviously have nothing to do with landing gear issues ... It is unfortunate that Bombardier did not design a robust strut support system for these popular short hop aircraft .....

[BackHereAgain]

4. Odds are they farmed the LG mechanical systems out to one of the specialty companies

so I would tend to think it is adequately engineered. There may be a systems issue, crew issue, or maintenance.

[Trajan]

5. Well .... knowing the pre-production process ...

Im sure it looked good on paper .... and 'Aging' issues, like fatigue and corrosion, can be difficult to foretell ... Nevertheless: They placed much faith in their suppliers ability to produce as defined, and either : 1) The definition was insufficient .... or 2) The hardware is not produced as defined ....

We have deadlines in the 'JIT/LEAN' production environment with Bombardier, and we sometimes barely scrape by ... primarily due to production time constraints, since the subsystem design was proven long ago and is quite mature.

I just hope they resolve the issue, because its a big one that can reduce confidence; enough to eventually kill it .....

Those emergency landings are not a huge selling point with customers ....

[keopeli]

6. Welcome back here again, backhereagain!

That was fun!

[PhD]

7. Yet more examples of landing gear problems on this troubled bird...

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/10/29/business/EU-FIN-Turboprop-Accidents-Glance.php

Lists six landing gear failures within the past year and a half.