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Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Unsecured door on Boeing 737 causes Forced landing at Piarco airport

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A light in­di­cat­ing that a door on a Con­ti­nen­tal Air­lines pas­sen­ger air­craft was not se­cure forced the pi­lot to land the air­plane short­ly af­ter it took off from Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port yes­ter­day morn­ing.The in­ci­dent al­so brought out emer­gency re­sponse agen­cies, in­clud­ing the Fire Ser­vice, which ac­ti­vat­ed emer­gency plans as the air­plane re­turned to the air­port at 10.35 am.A re­lease from Zo­la Pil­grim, cor­po­rate com­mu­ni­ca­tions man­ag­er of the Air­ports Au­thor­i­ty of T&T, said the Boe­ing 737 Con­ti­nen­tal Air­lines Flight CO1548 car­ry­ing 125 pas­sen­gers de­part­ed the air­port at 9.24 am for Hous­ton in the Unit­ed States."The pi­lot ob­serv­ing a light in­di­cat­ing a door on the air­craft was not se­cure ad­vised the Air Traf­fic Con­trol Tow­er.

"Al­though the pi­lot did not de­clare an emer­gency, emer­gency re­sponse agen­cies, in­clud­ing the Fire Ser­vice ac­ti­vat­ed their emer­gency plans."Pil­grim said none of the 125 pas­sen­gers or six crew mem­bers were in­jured.She said the prob­lem was rec­ti­fied and the air­craft de­part­ed a sec­ond time for Hous­ton at 11.53 am.She said no oth­er flights at Pi­ar­co were ham­pered by the in­ci­dent and all op­er­a­tions con­tin­ued on sched­ule.Trans­port Min­is­ter De­vant Ma­haraj said, how­ev­er, that the air­plane's land­ing co­in­cid­ed with an ex­er­cise be­ing car­ried out by the Fire Ser­vice."This caused some block­age of the BWIA Boule­vard and cre­at­ed some traf­fic," he said."The Air­ports Au­thor­i­ty had to ask Fire ser­vice per­son­nel to re­move their ve­hi­cle," Ma­haraj said.


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