Investigators have criticised Scandinavian Airlines’ Bombardier Q400 training and monitoring procedures after inquiries into a serious unstable-approach incident discovered that Q400 crews repeatedly failed to follow emergency checklists when handling propeller overspeed.

But Swedish investigation agency SHK has also questioned the clarity of these checklists in the wake of the incident at Kalmar on 6 April last year.

SHK found SAS Q400 pilots had experienced six propeller overspeed incidents in the preceding two years – four of them, in the space of three weeks, involving the same aircraft. But it says the emergency checklist was not followed properly in any of these cases.

The last of these inciden

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