{"id":302739,"date":"2026-02-25T05:29:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T04:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.travelreport.se\/?p=302739"},"modified":"2026-02-25T05:29:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T04:29:53","slug":"the-plane-hesitated-to-land-in-the-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelreport.se\/en\/sas-plan-vagrade-landa-i-salen\/","title":{"rendered":"SAS plane refused to land in S\u00e4len"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When a pilot refused to land in S\u00e4len, 133 passengers were stranded. According to SAS, the runway was too slippery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2013 Ultimately, it is a decision based on safety and we never question that, says Alexandra Lindgren Kaoukji at SAS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When the SAS plane from Copenhagen was to land at Scandinavian Mountains Airport in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressen.se\/tagg\/location\/salen\/\" class=\"\">The seal<\/a>&nbsp;on Sunday, the pilot considered it too unsafe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The plane, with 68 passengers on board, circled 7 times over S\u00e4len for 40 minutes and then returned to Denmark.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">133 people who were supposed to take the return flight were left at the airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2013 It was too slippery. That assessment is made by the control tower and the airport. Since safety comes first, the decision is made in a joint forum not to land, says Alexandra Lindgren Kaoukji at SAS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Stayed at the airport<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Airport manager Gunnar Lenman says they did not expect the decision to reverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2013 It&#039;s the captain who decides, but it was surprising. It&#039;s the first time in six years that this has happened due to ground conditions, says Gunnar Lenman, to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.moratidning.se\/2026-02-23\/flyg-fran-kopenhamn-vagrade-landa-i-salen-atervande\/\">Mora newspaper<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The airport was able to arrange accommodation for 120 of the passengers, and about ten were allowed to stay overnight at the airport. The following morning they were driven to the Norwegian airport Gardermoen, where they were allowed to fly to Copenhagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Disagreement about slipperiness<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the airport manager, the runway was no slipperier than normal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2013 It was the last flight of the day, all other planes that arrived during the day had landed before and we were ready to land. It has been a normal pre-winter here all weekend, Gunnar Lenman tells&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.moratidning.se\/2026-02-23\/flyg-fran-kopenhamn-vagrade-landa-i-salen-atervande\/\">Mora newspaper<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When SAS is contacted by the airport&#039;s statement, they do not recognize it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2013 I have no information about what they thought, but it sounds strange if they would speak out against us. We haven&#039;t really experienced that before, so I can&#039;t say anything about that, but it is ultimately a decision based on safety and we never question that, says Alexandra Lindgren Kaoukji at SAS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: Expressen.se<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N\u00e4r en pilot v\u00e4grade landa i S\u00e4len strandsattes 133 passagerare. Enligt SAS var landningsbanan f\u00f6r hal. \u2013 Det \u00e4r till syvende och sist ett beslut som baseras p\u00e5 s\u00e4kerhet och det ifr\u00e5gas\u00e4tter vi aldrig, s\u00e4ger Alexandra Lindgren Kaoukji p\u00e5 SAS. N\u00e4r SAS-planet fr\u00e5n K\u00f6penhamn skulle landa p\u00e5 Scandinavian mountains airport i&nbsp;S\u00e4len&nbsp;i s\u00f6ndags, ans\u00e5g piloten att [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":297230,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[85,312,6360,199,529,200],"class_list":["post-302739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flyg","tag-flyg","tag-tag-flygplats","tag-ladning","tag-plan","tag-salen","tag-sas"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>SAS-plan v\u00e4grade landa i S\u00e4len &#8211; Travel Report<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SAS-plan v\u00e4grade landa i S\u00e4len \u2013 L\u00e4s senaste nyheterna fr\u00e5n resebranschen p\u00e5 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