Flight To Buffalo Narrows Encounters Problems
Wednesday, April 02, 2008 at 15:18
An incident last week at the Buffalo Narrows airport has sparked an investigation by the Transportation Safety Board.
On Thursday, a plane owned and operated by Courtesy Air suffered a gear collapse while touching down.
Company president Jackie Fowler says the plane has been temporarily grounded.
Fowler confirms another incident involving a company plane happened later that day.
The aircraft was in the air when the inside window to the cockpit cracked.
She says that is common among pressurized airplanes, and the outer windshield remained intact.
Fowler adds the TSB isn’t required to investigate incidents of this nature, and the craft itself is fine.
Contrary to rumours that are circulating, she stresses the passengers from the first incident were not on board the second flight — as they had elected to go home.
No one was hurt in either incident.