One of Caribbean Air­lines' (CAL) ATR-72 air­craft, 9Y TTA crashed in­to a wall of the Ter­mi­nal Build­ing at the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port.

The in­ci­dent oc­curred at 11.15 pm on Wednes­day.

A state­ment from CAL's cor­po­rate com­mu­ni­ca­tions head Dionne Ligoure said the air­craft was be­ing tax­ied from the ramp to an air­craft hangar when it came in­to con­tact with the wall of the air­port ter­mi­nal build­ing.

The air­craft was not in ac­tive ser­vice and there were no pas­sen­gers or crew on board, the state­ment said.

"The ex­tent of dam­age to the air­craft is be­ing as­sessed, and it has been with­drawn from ser­vice. There were no in­juries to any per­son­nel," the re­lease said.

An in­ves­ti­ga­tion has been ini­ti­at­ed by the rel­e­vant au­thor­i­ties.

"Caribbean Air­lines as­sures all stake­hold­ers that the air­line’s ser­vices on the air bridge con­tin­ue to op­er­ate ac­cord­ing to its reg­u­lar core sched­ule, " the air­line as­sured.