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SINGAPORE – A Singapore Airlines (SIA) cargo plane is being repaired in Brussels after holes were detected in the underside of the plane.
SIA said Sunday night (February 28) that the affected plane was a Boeing 747-400 freighter, operating on SQ7951 service from Dallas to Brussels on February 26.
The flight crew had performed the necessary visual checks of the aircraft in accordance with the procedure, SIA said.
The flight then took off and landed in Brussels without incident, the airline added.
But the plane was found to “have some damage to its body during a post-flight inspection.”
SIA said: “Investigations are underway to determine the cause of the damage.
“The aircraft is being repaired in Brussels and will return to Singapore after they have been completed.”
The aviation news website The Aviation Herald had posted photos showing what it said were multiple punctures on the underside of the plane.
In one photo, you can see a stone stuck in one of the holes.
The website suggested that the damage was caused by stones that were thrown upward by the wheels of the planes as the plane landed on the runway.
He said initial information had suggested that the stones had fallen from a truck that was being used for renovation works at Brussels airport.
Currently, SIA operates a fleet of seven Boeing 747-400 cargo aircraft. The planes had been used to transport initial shipments of Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines from Brussels to Singapore in recent months.
Recently, he said that the global crisis in air cargo capacity as carriers cut flights has led to improvements in their loads and cargo yields, amid strong demand for pharmaceutical and e-commerce shipments.
The airline has also added capacity by increasing the frequency of passenger jets operating cargo-only flights and resumed more passenger services.
“The utilization of the freighter fleet was also maximized to offer more cargo capacity,” added SIA.
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