Trouble for SN African flights on 25/08/06

Post by **Bottie** » 25 Aug 2006, 14:37

It seems SN 353 has some troubles. Left BRU at 11.28, don't know the time when it came back but the second departure is cancelled.

10:40 Kinshasa SN 353

11:28
via Yaounde
10:40 Yaounde SN 353

13:45
10:40 Yaounde SN 1353

15:00
via Kinshasa

MD-11forever · Post by **MD-11forever** » 25 Aug 2006, 15:40

Also, the flight to Dakar seem to have some problems. The normal flight is cancelled, and replaced by a flight via Casablanca. Also the equipment changed, from A330-300 to A319.

25/08 10:40 Dakar SN 235 Cancelled
25/08 16:30 Casablanca SN 1235
via Dakar

A bad day for SNBA's A330s

Post by **speedbird1** » 25 Aug 2006, 16:01

Well OO-SFM has just come past my office on departure looks like it's off for a test flight.

Emirates

Post by **speedbird1** » 25 Aug 2006, 16:26

Now on approach for which ever 25 is in use today.

Emirates

Post by **sn26567** » 25 Aug 2006, 17:08

10:40 Yaounde via Kinshasa SN 1353 now delayed until 21:00 !!!

Post by **airbuske** » 25 Aug 2006, 17:08

There were yesterday also problems with the Africa flights.

Kaninchen87 · Post by **Kaninchen87** » 25 Aug 2006, 18:09

After the landing (???) at +- 12h20, OO-SFM was surrounded by 5 big trucks of the fire department and 1 police combi. Does anybody know why? Where did it come from?

AN124 · Post by **AN124** » 25 Aug 2006, 18:32

OO-SFM asked the fire department to check their brakes and tyres after the landing today.
Nothing unregular was found as for as I know.

Greetings,
Yvo

Kaninchen87 · Post by **Kaninchen87** » 25 Aug 2006, 18:47

Ok thank you very much!

But 5 trucks is quite a lot of course

Jense · Post by **Jense** » 25 Aug 2006, 19:33

Can someone confirm it was OO-SFM who departed as first of 2 A330's standing on Apron 2 North? Because when starting the taxi, there was some smoke in the neighbourhoud of the APU and stabilizer.

Post by **Kapitein** » 25 Aug 2006, 19:40

SFM had flap problems.

The smoke out of the APU when starting is normal, especially when it's colder.

Airborne · Post by **Airborne** » 25 Aug 2006, 19:54

The plane is now landing again after a testflight. I hope the problem is solved.

Greetings,
Airborne

Waldorf · Post by **Waldorf** » 25 Aug 2006, 20:35

OO-SFM: Problem with flaps (overweight landing as result, that's why the firetrucks were waiting)

OO-SFN: Problem with hydraulics

OO-SFO: Fuelproblem

Nope, it's not friday the 13th, but it looks like it for SN. Like mentioned before, now there's a A319 heading to Dakar via Casablanca.

airazurxtror · Post by **airazurxtror** » 25 Aug 2006, 21:03

SN 1353 to Yaounde via Kinshasa now expected to depart at 2300 (BIAC website)

LX-LGX · Post by **LX-LGX** » 25 Aug 2006, 22:50

Seems there was a 4th one in troubles on this Friday 13th: this Avroliner-100 for Stockholm is also cancelled today

dep 25/08 17h05 Brussels-Stockholm SN2307 departed 17:28

arr 25/08 17h44 Brussels-Brussels SN2307 arrived 18:13

dep 25/08 17h05 Brussels-Stockholm SN2307 cancelled

Was there a real departure, or was it from the gate to maintenance at 17h28?

LX-LGX · Post by **LX-LGX** » 26 Aug 2006, 01:50

SN1353 has left for Kinshasa / Yaounde at 23h26 on Friday night.

(scheduled departure was Friday morning 10h40, as SN353).

SN30952 · Post by **SN30952** » 26 Aug 2006, 03:10

That does not speak for the SNBA maintenance department. As far as I can remember I seldom or never knew 3 scheduled aircraft out of service at the same time in Sabena's time....

Not even when the 727 and 707 were aging....
The Caravelles were caprious and whimsical... But with a light slap they were going again.

TWA · Post by **TWA** » 26 Aug 2006, 12:26

Are these A330's one of the first ever built?

I saw on Airfleets that they date back to 1993 !

Atlantis · Post by **Atlantis** » 26 Aug 2006, 12:46

Correct, but when the maintenance costs are not to high no problem to use them for a longer time.

It's coincidence that all three had a problem last Friday. Everybody is now jumping on that fact while it was a "long" time when there were serious problems with those aircrafts.

flyavro · Post by **flyavro** » 26 Aug 2006, 13:14

first of all:
the 330's are not maintained by DAT technics but by Sabena technics. DAT technics are doing a very fine job maintaining the Avro's seen the short time most of them are in BRU and the kinda big fleet but with a huge understaff problem.
Hats off to them!!!