Again problems with an A330, in Brussels now ?

[sn26567]

Blackhawk, thanks for info, but please use English in this forum.

Translation

SNBA-plane blocked in Cameroon

An SN Brussels Airlines aircraft with 180 passengers on board is blocked since Friday evening at the airport of Yaounde, the capital of Cameroon. One of the engines was damaged during take-off from Kinshasa (DR Congo) airport. The plane was able to reach Yaounde, but there it was concluded that the damage was too important to continue further. Two technicians were flown in from Brussels. Meanwhile the 180 passengers were transferred to several hotels in Yaoundé.

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This must have been a costly adventure for SN BA.

Congratulations to the Operations management, which found quick solutions to the problem by sending two A319s to Africa.

Hopefully everything will return to normal this morning.

[AN124]

Is there any news about what happend exactly with the engine?
Did the plane had a bird strike and then damaged some of it Fan blades?

Best Regards,
Yvo

[sabena4ever]

From the RTBF news, The SNBA A330, retained in Yaounde, was victim of a birdstrike.
have a nice sunday

[Skystef]

Friday morning the schedule to FIH was provided by OO-SFO, so this should be the ill-fated plane.

SS

[sn26567]

All three A330s departed safely this morning, albeit somewhat late (30-40 minutes).

From 7 February and for 3 weeks, the schedules will change to allow the last A330 to undergo a D-check in Singapore.

[ILS25L]

Good afternoon,
Was at the airport this morning and I am very sure to have seen 3 A330 SNBA leaving : 1 around 1000 and the 2 others around 1130-1230. Looks like they are all back in service and hopefully without problems.
It does not give SN Brussels Airlines the positive publicity they deserve (personal opinion).
Regards, Karl

[Airborne]

Friday morning the schedule to FIH was provided by OO-SFO, so this should be the ill-fated plane.

So, it was OO-SFO. Can anyone confirm this message

Greetz ,
Kristof

[Skystef]

So, it was OO-SFO. Can anyone confirm this message

Have the confirmation it was this plane.

SS

[Airborne]

Ok! Thanks Q707.

Kristof

[OO-SBZ]

A happy ending

BeN

[Allnipponairways]

so dakar is goig to be with an A330 from now on ,,,, hopefully without any problems ...

greets

good for snba because people in hotels cost the compagny a lot of money not that africa is so expensive but still ....

greets

flying cobra

[AirDupont]

ANA,

didn't know we had a Zed Fare deal with SNBA????
????

Greetz

[Allnipponairways]

Nope but with TAP we have but SNBA except them with out any probelems since the price we have to pay is as good as almost full faire ticktes because ana charges to many taxes at us ... or did you not kow the japanese is stealing our money ...lol

greets

flying cobra

[OO-SBZ]

ANA,

didn't know we had a Zed Fare deal with SNBA????
????

Greetz

Shall I sound curious... but what is a 'Zed Fare'?

Best regards

BeN

[Allnipponairways]

a zed fare is lower fare of airline tickets for everybody who works at the airport or whos is pilot or cabin crew ... everybody normaly after 6 months can ask for low fare tickets off course it is standby but we love to travell with stress ...lol

greets

flying cobra

[A318]

Most of our interline agreements count on ZEM. Things have been changed last year inside KLM which ment for us things got a lot cheaper. Where am I talking about, I will loose this anyway when I am away from KLM

Erwin

[OO-SBZ]

a zed fare is lower fare of airline tickets for everybody who works at the airport or whos is pilot or cabin crew ... everybody normaly after 6 months can ask for low fare tickets off course it is standby but we love to travell with stress ...lol

greets

flying cobra

Thanks for the information

BeN