Mount Cook ATRs Return to Service
Mount Cook ATRs return to service
New Zealand's Mount Cook Airlines expects to return the last of 11 grounded ATR 72-500s to service this weekend.
New Zealand's Mount Cook Airlines expects to return the last of 11 grounded ATR 72-500s to service this weekend.

The last of 11 ATR 72-500s grounded on March 18 by New Zealand’s Mount Cook Airlines due to hairline cracks found on a front fuselage frame will likely return to service by the end of this week, an ATR spokesman told AIN Thursday. Subsequent checks on the entire fleet showed similar cracks on at least nine of the airplanes.