SN flight from Kigali cancelled 18/10/06

PNC · Post by **PNC** » 18 Oct 2006, 00:22

18/10 06:55 Kigali SN 463
via Nairobi
flight is cancelled, what happened?

[title changed to make it clearer - sn26567]

PNC · Post by **PNC** » 18 Oct 2006, 00:25

flight was supposed to land brussels with a delay at 0849hr and is now cancelled. where is this flight now?

FlyA330 · Post by **FlyA330** » 18 Oct 2006, 09:20

The airplane is stuck in Kigali with a Fuel Filter problem.

Post by **sn26567** » 18 Oct 2006, 10:07

SN 481 today will make a detour via Kigali to pick up the stranded passengers.

Today's departures:

18/10 10:40 Entebbe via Kigali via Nairobi SN 481

mr mayhem · Post by **mr mayhem** » 18 Oct 2006, 10:18

actually 481 is only gonna stop in Kigali to drop off technician and spare parts for repairing the fuel leak engine 2
stranded passengers will probably be flown to NBO with air rwanda and will be piked up there

brgds

Twenty4 · Post by **Twenty4** » 18 Oct 2006, 10:39

SN Brussels failed to take off from the Kanombe International Airport last night due to technical reasons.

http://www.newtimes.co.rw/index.php?opt ... 6&Itemid=1

sn-remember · Post by **sn-remember** » 19 Oct 2006, 13:34

Pftt
They don't have a newspaper in french anymore in Kigali ?

TWA · Post by **TWA** » 19 Oct 2006, 13:46

At the airport, throngs of disgruntled and crying passengers who had either missed their flights or got stuck at the airport enroute to Nairobi, were desperate to get accommodation. “I am stranded; I had an emergency business to attend to in Belgium, but now look, I have been here for the last four hours waiting for my flight in vain,” a middle aged man, clinging to a rack that was holding his baggage said.
He said he had been in Kigali on business for a week, but declined to mention his name.
The stress and despair was quite evident at the airport, as parents with children practically cried at the cruel fate that had altered their travel arrangements.

talking about sentsation-sick newspapers...

Post by **sn26567** » 19 Oct 2006, 15:51

Another report (in French) in the not-so-well-named website "crash aérien": http://www.crash-aerien.com/www/news/ar ... 96&check=0

Post by **sn26567** » 20 Oct 2006, 16:45

I got some direct news from a passenger of the aircraft that was grounded in Kigali. The Rwandese press is reallybad and knows no better than to SN Brussels Airlines.

The truth is that all passengers remained very quiet, polite, courteous and tey clearly understood the situation. SN BA made a maximum to help them with a good meal and a nice accommodation, together with free telephone calls. The passengers to NBO were already rerouted the following morning at 6.45am.

Well done under difficuly circumstances, SN!