Air Seychelles has announced that two of its Twin Otter aircraft are back into the inter-island scheduled service. 

This follows a four-day suspension of flights during which all the three aircraft were thoroughly examined for passenger safety purposes after the undercarriage of a Twin Otter was damaged last Sunday September 20.

Two South African aircraft structural engineers from South African Airways were flown in on Monday to inspect the landing gears on all three Twin Otters so as to ensure that no structural faults were present on any of the other undercarriage supports.

Air Seychelles General Manager for Engineering, Mr Michael Jack, said: "The two aircraft structural engineers have x-rayed and carried out magnetic particle inspection (MPI) to search for cracks on the legs of all the Twin Otters. The thorough tests have indicated with certainty that no cracks are present on all the Twin Otters' undercarriages."

Mr Jack explained that the assessment works on the damaged Twin Otter would continue and the new parts would be flown in to replace the damaged leg.

Meanwhile, Air Seychelles has confirmed that its inter-island services has resumed and daily flights to Praslin and charter flights to Denis, Bird and other outer islands are operating.

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