Flybe 'no misgivings' on Q400
19.11.07
Flybe has said it has no misgivings over the Bombardier Q400 turboprop aircraft, which has suffered a number of problems with landing gear over the last two months. Scandinavian airline SAS suffered three similar landing incidents, the latest a landing-gear failure in Denmark late last month, and has stopped using the plane, but Flybe remains confident in the plane.
Flybe is the biggest operator of the Bombardier 78-seater plane. Jim French, the Flybe chairman, said SAS's problems had not made him rethink a $1.9bn (£920m) order for new planes, due for delivery by September 2009, which will leave the carrier with 60 Q400s as well as 16 Embraer 195s.
He said: 'I am very satisfied that there is not an issue with the Q400. The third incident was totally unconnected to the previous two and points towards a maintenance problem.' Bombardier insists there is no problem with the aircraft.
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