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Friday, February 14, 2025

CAL crew off active duty as investigations continue

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17 days ago
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FILE - A Caribbean Airlines ATR 72-600 departs the British Virgin Islands. [Image by BRENT PINHEIRO]

FILE - A Caribbean Airlines ATR 72-600 departs the British Virgin Islands. [Image by BRENT PINHEIRO]

A Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) pi­lot and two tech­ni­cians have been re­moved from ac­tive du­ty fol­low­ing an emer­gency land­ing in­volv­ing flight BW 1541 on Tues­day night.

The ATR 72-600 air­craft was en route from To­ba­go to Trinidad when the in­ci­dent oc­curred. De­spite the en­gine is­sue, the flight land­ed safe­ly at Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port. The air­line has tem­porar­i­ly ground­ed the plane to con­duct in­spec­tions as part of the on­go­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

Dur­ing ur­gent ques­tions in the Sen­ate, Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert con­firmed the sus­pen­sion of the crew and the in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the air­craft.

Im­bert hint­ed there was a fu­el is­sue and not nec­es­sar­i­ly an air­craft is­sue. 

"There are three per­sons in­volved, the pi­lot and two tech­ni­cians, " Im­bert said. "With re­spect to the whole ques­tion of how much fu­el was in the par­tic­u­lar tank that fed the par­tic­u­lar en­gine that had the prob­lem. So they have been, I don't want to use the word with­drawn from ser­vice but the air­craft has been with­drawn from ser­vice and these three in­di­vid­u­als are not in ac­tive ser­vice at this point in time which is nor­mal when you're do­ing an in­ves­ti­ga­tion. 


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