Trinidad: Airplane makes emergency landing at Piarco Airport

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The damaged engine of tbe Venezolano flight which made an emergency landing at Piarco yesterday.
The damaged engine of tbe Venezolano flight which made an emergency landing at Piarco yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Trinidad & Tobago Civ­il Avi­a­tion Au­thor­i­ty (TTCAA) is in­ves­ti­gat­ing an in­ci­dent in which Vene­zolana Air­lines flight AW1303 was forced to make an emer­gency land­ing at Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port on yes­ter­day af­ter­noon.

The Air­port’s Au­thor­i­ty said short­ly af­ter the flight’s de­par­ture for Cara­cas, Venezuela, at 12.54 pm, the cap­tain heard a loud sound and the en­gine lost pow­er. The pi­lot re­port­ed en­gine fail­ure and asked per­mis­sion from air traf­fic con­trol to re­turn to Pi­ar­co.

Emer­gency re­sponse agen­cies were alert­ed and were on stand­by. The air­craft with 79 pas­sen­gers on board land­ed safe­ly at 1.08 p.m.

There were no re­ports of in­juries dur­ing the in­ci­dent and flight op­er­a­tions at the air­port were not ham­pered, the Air­port Au­thor­i­ty said.