SN 351 Douala via Kinshasa CANCELLED ???

petarn · Post by **petarn** » 22 Mar 2004, 16:23

The engine of the oo-sfn is almost good. He was on the airplane 1 hour ago, but now they have to do the tests.

Peter

rwy25r · Post by **rwy25r** » 22 Mar 2004, 20:29

OOSFN is good for commercial service this evening, it is operating to Douala and Kinshasa (flight planned originally this morning) this time.
OOSFO had an unrelated nose wheel steering problem in Dakar yesterday. OOSFM was indeed calling in in Dakar to deliver spares and SABENA Technics personnel to repair the steering problem. The OOSFO is expected to be OK by the evening when it will operate Dakar Brussels.
As I wrote earlier, the Entebbe flight is combined with Kigali tomorrow. All subcharters have left Brussels (Eagle A310-200 FGEMO, Air Luxor L1011 CSTMR, Air Plus Comet B747-200 ECIPN)

rwy25r

blackhawk · Post by **blackhawk** » 22 Mar 2004, 21:57

Voila, the scanner of Botti picked this bird up

ACARS mode: X Aircraft reg: OO-SFN []
Message label: _ [Nothing to transmit] Block id: 7 Msg no: S28A
Flight id: SN0351 [Burbank, CA, USA-Kinshasa, Congo ( Zaire )] [SN Brussels Airlines/DAT Air Transport]
----------------------------------------------------------[ 22/03/2004 21:45 ]-
1 contacts with this aircraft. First contact: 22/03/2004 21:30 as flight SN0351

Now , let's hope it can fly for a long periode without having all these problems.

Post by **sn26567** » 23 Mar 2004, 13:23

There were some political implications of these problems, leading to unexpected additional military expenses...

See here: https://www.aviation24.be/article3942.html