Oct 2000
SAS grounds all planes of type Dash8/Q400 after a long series of instrumental problems.

SAS Q400s are out of service pending inspection of pitot/static system after an aircraft landed at Copenhagen with no speed or height information.

Jan 01
SAS Commuter and Bombardier work together to fix on going Dash Q400 problems.

Feb 01
Scandinavian carrier SAS Commuter is to ground all of its Canadian built turbo prop planes beacause of recurring inflight technical problems.

Jan 02
All Q400 grounded due to a crack found in main landing gear. This is after multiple problems with the fleet, including many unsafe gears, uplocked gear, hydraulic leaks and losses of quantity in one system, many faults related to vibration, parts of structure fallen off in flight, excessive wear on hoses, uplock hooks.

Sas examines 21 dash 8 Q400 planes for possible bolt defects.

Jan 03
An SAS (SK) Dash 8 Q400 had to make an emergency landing in Stavanger.

SAS Commuter had to ground it’s Dash8 Q400 fleet after several instances of false smoke warnings from the cargo hold resulting in multiple emergency landings.

Feb 06
All Nippon’s flight crew was forced to deploy their Dash 8’s landing gear manually after all three sets of wheels refused to come down.

March 07
All Nippon’s Dash 8’s crashes during landing at Kochi after the front wheel fails to deploy.

Sep 07
Many SAS flights cancelled due to technical faults.

Sep 07
SAS Dash 8 Q400 makes emergency landing in Denmark due to landing gear failure.

9 Sept
A SAS Q400 runs off the runway at Ålborg airport (Denmark) after landing gear collapses

10 Sept
Two Q400 have to return to Kastrup airport (Denmark) after reports of technical problems onboard

12 Sept
Landing gear collapses during landing on an Q400 in Vilnius.

21 Sept
An Augsburgs Airways Q400 crashes during landing after the front wheel fails to deploy.

10 Oct An
Q400 headed to Gdansk has to return to Copenhagen after malfunction with the hatch at the forward landing gear is reported.

11 Oct
An Q400 from Stockholm to Berlin has to return after indications of engine problems.

12 Oct
An Q400 has to return to Warzaw after reports with the landing gear right after takeoff.

19 Oct
Q400 returns to Kastrup airport after reports that the hatch for a landing wheel hasn’t properly closed.

27 Oct
The right landing gear failure during landing at Copenhagen.

Must people have to die before they stop using this plane?