Airport Accident

[DREW]

Originally Posted by StiofanDerry

Thanks for your thoughts guys, I think the reason for the water was that the plane hit some sort of bank as someone said, not sure of the exact physics. Was at the funeral yesterday there were about 400 people there. Worst part was draping Aaron's coffin in an Arsenal football shirt all his friends had wrote messages on. I think Christy was released from ICU two nights ago, think they expect him to recover.

So sorry to hear that.

It really brings it home to you when you see it in personal terms.

I hope your mate Christy makes it home Ok and recovers as well.

Kind Regards

Drew

[Bannerman]

Thai plane crash lawsuits filed

Irish Independent

Friday, 28 September 2007 14:30
US lawyers have filed the first of several lawsuits against aircraft maker Boeing seeking compensation for victims of the recent Thai plane crash.

90 people, including one Irish man, died when a McDonnell Douglas MD-82 jet of Thai budget carrier One-Two-Go broke up in flames after it hit an embankment while landing in heavy rain on the island of Phuket on 16 September.

More than 100 survivors and victims' relatives have given authority to two US lawyers to represent them to claim damages from Chicago-based Boeing, which took over plane maker McDonnell Douglas Corporation in 1997.

The flight data recorders are due to arrive back in Thailand at the weekend, following analysis in the US to help determine the cause of the crash.

The first lawsuit was filed on behalf of Thai victim Parinyawit Choosaeng who suffered burn injuries in the crash.

The lawsuit demands that the court order the defendant to immediately release to the families all relevant evidence on the design and manufacturing records of the accident aircraft including maintenance records.

According to one of the lawyers, the lawsuits must be filed shortly after the accident to preserve evidence.

The MD-82 model has crashed 13 times, including the Thai crash

[Simbo]

Nice of the ambulance chasers to join the fray. I'm suuuuuuuuuure they are ONLY doing it for the good and benefit of the families concerned.

[landofsmiles]

Air crash claims another life

PHUKET (Gazette, Nation): A 22-year-old Welsh woman being treated at Bangkok General Hospital in Bangkok after surviving the crash landing of One-Two-Go flight OG269 was confirmed dead today as a result of severe burns.

Bethan Jones, 22, received severe burns to 50% of her body in the fire that followed the crash and was flown from Phuket to Bangkok on September 18.

Miss Jones, from Porth in South Wales, was on a round-the-world trip with her boyfriend, Alex Collins, 22, who also died in the crash.

Her death brings the total dead in disaster to 90.

[Agni]

This was a tragedy that could and should have been avoided. Very sad. My condolences to everyone affected.

[landofsmiles]

Originally Posted by Nicke

The headlines in Sweden now is about Dash-8-Q400 airplanes, looks like 3 airplanes of that kind had problems recently. SAS have stranded all their Dash planes for the time being, as a bolt in the landing wheel seems to get rusty and may cause problems. Dash is still a small part of the fleet but still a safety risk until these bolts has been replaced.

Had yet another incident and have grounded all of them permanently now.

SAS grounds planes in safety fear

SAS fears problems with the plane could damage its image
Scandinavian airline SAS is permanently stopping flying Bombardier Q400 planes after several emergencies caused by landing gear problems.
The decision came after a plane carrying 44 people from Bergen, Norway, to Copenhagen made an emergency landing in Denmark on Saturday.

Nobody was seriously hurt in the incident, the third involving a Canadian-made Bombardier in two months.

The SAS board decided to "immediately discontinue" using the planes.

"Confidence in the Q400 has diminished considerably and our customers are becoming increasingly doubtful about flying in this type of aircraft," said chief executive Mats Jansson.

And the airline's deputy chief executive, John Dueholm, said the plane had seen "repeated quality-related problems".

"SAS's flight operations have always enjoyed an excellent reputation and there is a risk that use of the Q400 could eventually damage the SAS brand," he said.

Lease replacements

The airline operates 27 of the planes which are used on many Nordic regional routes and for connections to destinations including the UK, Germany, Poland and Luxembourg.

SAS said that since it began using the planes in 2000, they had accounted for about 5% of all passengers carried.

The carrier, which had already cancelled more than 40 flights on Sunday after the Copenhagen incident, said it was inevitable that there would now be more flights shelved.

It would look to fill the gap in schedules by reallocating planes in its current fleet and by leasing aircraft, it said.

In September, Bombardier grounded almost half of its Q400 turboprop planes after equipment failures forced emergency landings of SAS planes in Denmark and Lithuania.

At the time of the move, the Montreal-based company said that the groundings were a "precautionary measure", adding it believed its aircraft were "absolutely safe and reliable".

The Q400 turboprop - which carries between 68 and 78 passengers - has been in use since 2000, and more than 160 of the planes have been delivered around the world.

In March, an All Nippon Airways Q400 plane carrying 56 passengers and four crew landed safely after its nose gear failed to descend.

[Kerbin]

Our mob think the're OK. These "Qantaslink" aircraft are mainly flying regionally. AU has a lot of regions.

This was published yesterday.

QANTAS said it is monitoring its fleet of Bombardier Q400 planes after a safety scare overseas.

Danish civil aviation authorities grounded all Dash 8 Q400 planes, also known as Bombardiers, in the Scandinavian Airlines Systems fleet yesterday after one made an emergency landing at Copenhagen airport.

None of the 44 passengers and crew on board was injured during the incident.

Qantas Airways has seven Q400s in its QantasLink regional operation including the busy Sydney-Canberra route.

Last month, Qantas grounded its Bombardiers following an airworthiness directive from the Civil Aviation and Safety Authority (CASA) and Transport Canada after two emergencies in less than a week.

The airline was given the all-clear to return the entire fleet to the skies the following day.

A Qantas spokeswoman today said the airline was monitoring its Bombardier Q400 planes.

"We have got seven aircraft and we are monitoring the aircraft very closely," she said.

"We are complying with CASA directives.

"Our aircraft are safe and compliant at this stage."

Last week, Qantas announced it would buy another 12 Bombardier Q400 aircraft for its QantasLink operation and planned to take up an option to buy a further 24.

The aircraft, to be delivered from June next year, will boost the QantasLink Q400 fleet to 21 aircraft.