Bombardier settles claim with SAS over Q400 turboprops

[Albacore]

http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2008/03/1 ... ersas.html

[Raybanman]

Thats insane. Did they even come to a firm understanding of what was causing the issue? Last I read, they figured it was improper maintenance by SAS. Oh well you can fix anything with money and freebies.

PP

[2R]

That is good news .
Always nice when adults can sit down and solve problems

[2milefinal]

I think its more to do with the Canadian way of doing things. Always say your sorry and try and avoid conflict.

[DA900]

It's more to do with SAS looking like there saving face. Then in turn Bombardier gets a big order. So everybody is happy at the end.

[W5]

http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsN ... 310?rpc=44

SAS orders 27 Bombardier aircraft in Q400 settlement deal
http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/20 ... -deal.html

[THEICEMAN]

Great News!
Bombardier did a nice dam job settling the issue. They managed to keep the Scandinavian regional market & prevent it from going ATR &/or Embraer.

Doesn't matter who is right.......both sides won.
SAS get's some compensation. BBD get's more orders & saves the Q400 project.

It's a classic case of, "the customer is always right". If BBD would have continued the conflict, SAS probably would have gone with a competitor in the end.

[teacher]

Prosecutor drops inquiry into SAS' Q400 accidents
By David Kaminski-Morrow

Stockholm’s public prosecutor has dropped an investigation into SAS Group initiated after the airline company suffered the second of three Bombardier Q400 landing accidents last year.

The prosecutor opened the inquiry, centred on suspicion of ‘creating danger to another person’, after a Scandinavian Airlines Q400 accident in Vilnius on 12 September 2007.

That accident had been preceded by a similar event in Aalborg three days earlier. The prosecutor opted to determine whether SAS Group’s operation of Q400s exposed passengers to hazards.





SAS Group had rejected any grounds for the prosecutor’s suspicions, and today says that the prosecutor has “decided to discontinue” the investigation.

“It is gratifying and logical that the prosecutor has now established that SAS did not act incorrectly in conjunction with the Q400 accidents,” says SAS Group chief Mats Jansson.

“Both the Danish accident investigation board and the aircraft’s manufacturer have previously stated that the cause of the two incidents in question was a design fault that could not have been detected by SAS’ maintenance programme, as approved by the authorities.”

SAS Group withdrew its entire Q400 fleet after a third landing accident, at Copenhagen, a few weeks later. The company has since opted to acquire updated versions of the type as part of a regional fleet renewal.

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/20 ... dents.html