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SAS Ground Handling serves more than 30 airports in Denmark, Norway and Sweden and has about 8400 employees. SAS Ground Handling is owned by the SAS Group. As part of the Core-SAS strategy formed by the SAS Group in February 2009, some of SAS Ground Handling operations were divested or outsourced: [citation needed]
Icelandair Boeing 757 being serviced by another airline; SAS at Gardermoen Airport A ground-handling tug pulls a British Airways Boeing 747-400 at Heathrow Airport, England Airbus A380-800 operated by Qatar Airways on apron outside Heathrow Terminal 4 with a wide range of ground handling equipments around such as aircraft container, pallet loader, ULD, jet air starter, belt loader, pushback ...
The right engine was shut off for the landing, because in the previous landings the propeller had hit the ground and shards of it ripped into the fuselage. This was not on the emergency checklist, rather it was the pilots making a safety-based decision. The following day SAS announced a group-wide permanent and immediate retirement of the Q400 ...
At 18:45 UTC the crew reported inbound at an altitude of 6500 feet (1,981 m) still in a descent. At 18:47 UTC the aircraft struck the ground at an elevation of 3500 feet (1,067 m), between the Ankara range and the airport. The accident killed all 42 passengers and crew on board.
SAS was the launch customer of the Caravelle and became the model's second-largest operator. They were at first used on European routes but were gradually transferred to domestic services, especially in Sweden. SAS also bought four Caravelles that it leased to Swissair and from the mid-1960s, eight were leased to Thai Airways.
On 24 April 2002, SAS announced that all handling services operated by Braathens would be taken over by SAS Ground Services. All SAS employees would be prioritized in the rationalization process, and 800 Braathens employees were laid off. Three hundred Braathens' employees were offered jobs with SAS Ground Services, but these lost their seniority.
In September 2007, two separate accidents due to similar landing gear failures occurred within three days of each other on Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 aircraft operated by Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS). A third accident, again with a SAS aircraft, occurred in 27 October 2007, leading to the withdrawal of the type from the airline's fleet.
SAS flight 901 overran runway 04R at KJFK: Site: 650 ft (200 m) from Runway 04R at John F. Kennedy Airport: Aircraft; Aircraft type: McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30: Aircraft name: Haakon Viking: Operator: Scandinavian Airlines: IATA flight No. SK901: ICAO flight No. SAS901: Call sign: SCANDINAVIAN 901: Registration: LN-RKB: Flight origin: Stockholm ...