China Express Air resumes flights after close call landing

CHINA Express Air, China's first private regional airline based in Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou province, has been authorised to resume half its scheduled flights after being grounded for five days following a landing scare on August 28, reported Xinhua.

The right wing of the airline's Canadian-made Bombardier CRJ 200 plane scraped the ground on landing at Guiyang Airport in southwest China. No one was injured in the incident, reported Xinhua.

The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) then ordered the airline to stop all flights from September 1 pending safety checks.

This was the first suspension order issued by the CAAC concerning airline safety since a Brazil-made ERJ-190 operated by Henan Airlines crashed on landing at Lindu Airport, Yichun city in northeast China, on August 24, killing 42 and injuring 54 people on board.

The CAAC has accepted the airline's safety overhaul plan. Flights within southwest China's Guizhou province, and some from southwest China's Chongqing municipality, have been resumed, said the company's deputy general manager Chen Huaiyu.
(Source:www.schednet.com)