Eagle Air Flights Grounded

[squirrel350]

Doesnt sound like a good year for these boys.

"Wellington, Sept 26 NZPA "“ Air New Zealand grounded about 60 flights to check 17 planes after a safety "issue" was found during routine inspection of an Eagle Air plane last night.


The Air NZ link carrier said engineers had identified "an issue" with an undercarriage component on a Beech 1900D aircraft.

About 1000 customers were affected by the cancellations.

Eagle Air said nine of the aircraft were back in service, while five required replacement parts and would be flying again within the next 48 hours.

The airline expected the rest of the fleet to be inspected by the end of the day.

In June, an Eagle Air Beechcraft 1900D made a belly landing at Blenheim airport when its landing gear failed to come down.

That landing was being investigated by both the transport Accident Investigation Commission and Eagle Air. "

[Alex]

My flight was cancelled yesterday (must have been due to this), and was shunted onto a 3pm flight.

Alex

[creator2003]

They must be back in business now as i seen two of them today flying around Auckland ,bit of a set back for the company ,i can tell you im not to sure that id want to be on one if they had all these problems and didnt sort it back when they did that belly landing

[squirrel350]

lol was funny because they made some lame a$$ exscuse as to why they grounded there flights saying it was due to the eruption of Ruapehu even though they had released the report on the landing gear problems.

SQ350