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Scandinavian Airlines grounded its entire fleet of Dash 8 turboprop planes and cancelled more than 100 flights after a second crash landing in four days.
An SAS plane with 52 people on board crash landed in Lithuania on Wednesday after the landing gear on the DHC-8-400 aircraft failed. Nobody was injured.
Another landing gear failure caused a similar SAS aircraft with 73 people on board to crash land on Sunday in Denmark, also without casualties.
SAS and its Wideroe subsidiary grounded their fleet of 27 Dash 8-400 aircraft until they can be inspected.
"If they are able to handle these problems through maintenance, the worst case scenario is they would lose SEK10 million Swedish kronor (USD$1.5 million) per day," said Jacob Pedersen, an analyst at Sydbank. "That's about half of a percent of what I expect SAS to earn pretax for the whole year.
"But they need to deal with this kind of fast. If they have to lease other planes there could be other costs. And if they have to change the whole landing gear on these planes it's an entirely different situation. That would be a very large bill."
The Dash 8-400 twin-engined turboprop is produced by Canada's Bombardier and can seat between 68 and 78 passengers.
SAS said Bombardier recommended that all Dash 8-400 planes worldwide with more than 10,000 landing gear cycles be grounded until inspections are carried out.
Aviation regulators in Denmark, Sweden and Norway also ruled that SAS's Dash 8-400 planes must not fly until they can be inspected.
"We grounded these planes immediately after this. Now we will conduct an investigation," said Anders Lundblad, a spokesman for the Swedish Civil Aviation Authority. "How long it will last, I guess we'll have a discussion with SAS about that."

(Reuters)

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