A technician walks near a SAS MD-82 aircraft parked at gate on Terminal 5 at Arlanda airport north of Stockholm February 9, 2010. Scandinavian airline SAS asked shareholders for 5 billion Swedish crowns ($672 million) to keep it flying after another quarterly loss, sending its shares diving to an 18-year low. SAS, half-owned by the governments of Denmark, Norway and Sweden and one of the worst hit by the crisis in the aviation industry, said the rights issue was needed to allow it to take out yet more costs as it battles to become profitable.