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Friday, February 28, 2025

American Airlines confirms mechanical issue with flight landing at SVG airport

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GUARDIAN MEDIA NEWSROOM
37 days ago
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The blown tyres of the American Airlines flight 909 after landing at the Argyle International Airport (AIA). (CMC Photo)

The blown tyres of the American Airlines flight 909 after landing at the Argyle International Airport (AIA). (CMC Photo)

CMC

Sources: Amer­i­can Air­lines; CMC

 

It was back to busi­ness-as-usu­al last night and to­day at Ar­gyle In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port (AIA) in St Vin­cent, fol­low­ing an in­ci­dent in­volv­ing an Amer­i­can Air­lines flight af­ter it land­ed there on Mon­day af­ter­noon.

Ac­cord­ing to a re­port from the Caribbean Me­dia Cor­po­ra­tion (CMC), on Mon­day af­ter­noon, an Amer­i­can Air­lines flight trav­el­ling from Mi­a­mi suf­fered a blow-out of its main land­ing gear tyres short­ly af­ter land­ing.

“Flight 909 came to an abrupt stop short­ly af­ter land­ing with eye­wit­ness­es say­ing that they heard ‘a loud bang when it was pass­ing the ter­mi­nal build­ing, and then saw smoke com­ing from the land­ing gear area’,” said the CMC re­port.

No in­juries were re­port­ed.

Amer­i­can Air­lines is­sued an of­fi­cial state­ment on the mat­ter last evening:

“Amer­i­can Air­lines flight 909, with ser­vice from MIA to Saint Vin­cent and the Grenadines (SVD), ex­pe­ri­enced a me­chan­i­cal is­sue af­ter land­ing in SVD. The air­craft was tak­en out of ser­vice to be in­spect­ed by our main­te­nance team. We thank our crew for their pro­fes­sion­al­ism and our cus­tomers for their un­der­stand­ing. No re­port­ed in­juries.”

CMC spoke with an avi­a­tion ex­pert who not­ed that it was ‘es­pe­cial­ly windy’ at the air­port, which is sit­u­at­ed on the coun­try’s east coast.

The ex­pert the­o­rised that on land­ing, the plane bounced back in­to the air, blow­ing the two tyres on the left main land­ing gear. Fire­fight­ers re­spond­ed as the air­craft con­tin­ued to­wards the oth­er end of the run­way be­fore com­ing to a halt.

CMC al­so re­port­ed that a lo­cal avi­a­tion main­te­nance com­pa­ny was en­gaged to re­place the dam­aged tyres on the twin-jet Boe­ing 737 MAX 8.

Ac­cord­ing to the CMC re­port, a Vir­gin At­lantic flight that was ar­riv­ing from Lon­don via Bar­ba­dos at the time of the in­ci­dent, was forced to cir­cle the aero­drome for a while be­fore re­turn­ing to the Sir Grant­ley Adams In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port in Bar­ba­dos. An out­bound Vir­gin At­lantic flight to Lon­don from Ar­gyle In­ter­na­tion­al was can­celled.

At 7:30 pm (lo­cal time) on Mon­day, the out bound leg of the Amer­i­can Air­lines flight, which was sup­posed to have de­part­ed at 5:25 pm (lo­cal time) was list­ed as “de­layed”, while the Trinidad-based Caribbean Air­lines (CAL), which was due to op­er­ate an 8:00 pm (lo­cal time) flight to Port of Spain, was list­ed as “de­layed.

This is the first ma­jor in­ci­dent at the air­port, which was opened on Feb­ru­ary 14, 2017. In 2021 an Amer­i­can Air­lines flight abort­ed its take off, while taxi­ing down the run­away.

 


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