ST JOHN'S–The cash-strapped re­gion­al air­line, Li­at, said Fri­day it would hold talks with the East­ern Caribbean Civ­il Avi­a­tion Au­thor­i­ty (EC­CAA) af­ter it had been slapped with a no­tice of penal­ty in con­nec­tion with an in­ci­dent that oc­curred on No­vem­ber 2 last year. Li­at gave no de­tails re­gard­ing the in­ci­dent, but said it was re­view­ing the find­ings with its ad­vi­sors and would en­gage EC­CAA in dis­cus­sions.

"Li­at is com­mit­ted to a fair res­o­lu­tion of the mat­ter based on full and frank dis­clo­sure by all par­ties. The safe­ty and se­cu­ri­ty of our pas­sen­gers re­mains Li­at's top pri­or­i­ty and Li­at con­tin­ues to op­er­ate in full and strict com­pli­ance with the Civ­il Avi­a­tion Reg­u­la­tions and its op­er­at­ing pro­ce­dures and man­u­als."The air­line said that these mat­ters re­main un­der re­view by LI­AT and dis­cus­sion with EC­CAA, not­ing "it would there­fore be in­ap­pro­pri­ate to make fur­ther pub­lic com­ment at this time".