Bombardier Canada sent a notification to all airlines, urging them to ground all Q400 turboprop aircrafts and conduct visual inspections of the landing gear, after two crash-landings occurred in just a few days.

Following this directive, the multi-national airline Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) canceled more than 100 flights on Thursday. All planes manufactured by the Canadian planemaker were grounded and scheduled to go through inspections.

The Denmark subsidiary said 82 flights are going to be canceled Friday, while SAS Sweden announced it will have to call off about 30 flights.

SAS Sweden said it is “trying to use all available capacity” and helps passengers to book other flights or transport them to nearby airline hubs. As an additional measures, several planes would be leased in order to cope with the situation.

Early Wednesday a Dash 8-Q400 aircraft crashed on the Vilnius airport during an emergency landing, a similar incident occurring Sunday in Aalborg, Denmark. After these two incident the company producing the planes advised airlines to inspect the turboprops airliners.

About 85 aircrafts that have accumulated 8,000 landings or been in use for more than four years were kept on the ground, following Bombardier’s advisory. The planemaker said it is prepared to dispatch experts to Lithuania and Denmark in order to assist the investigations if needed.

Sunday, the SAS Dash 8-Q400s caught fire after one of the landing gears collapsed and forced the plane of the runway. Sixty-nine passengers and four crew members were on board, five persons being transported to the local hospital with injuries.

Wednesday’s accident didn’t cause any casualties or fires, but it seems the same problem was responsible for the crash landing.
The Dash 8-Q400 airliners have been part of SAS’ fleet since 2000, being used for internal flights and short trips in Europe.