Budget airline Flybe has moved to reassure its customers of the airworthiness of planes on its Irish routes.
The reassurance follows the recommendation by Canadian airplane manufacturer Bombardier that their Q400 aircraft be grounded for inspection following five accidents so far this year.
Flybe operates Q400s out of Dublin, Galway and Belfast to 18 destinations in the UK and Channel Islands.
Earlier this month the right hand side landing gear on two different Scandinavian Airlines Q400s failed on landing. Several people were hospitalised following these incidents.
This week a Lufthansa Q400 had to make an emergency landing when problems with its landing gear were identified.
Following these incidents Bombardier stipulated that all Q400s with over 10,000 take off and landings should be grounded for immediate inspection.
This affected 60 of the almost 140 planes in service. Scandinavian Airlines and Alaskan regional carrier Horizon Airlines took the precaution of grounding all the Q400s in their fleet.
Flybe, which has 33 Q400s in its fleet, told the RTÉ Radio Investigative Unit that it recently successfully completed a precautionary inspection on all of its Q400s.
Flybe spokesman Niall Duffy said that it was not necessary to remove all craft from service as it had carried out every precautionary check necessary and all those that Bombardier had requested.
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