Fire­fight­ers at the Ar­gyle In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port in St Vin­cent were re­spond­ing to an in­ci­dent in­volv­ing an Amer­i­can Air­lines air­craft soon af­ter it land­ed there on Mon­day af­ter­noon.

The ex­act na­ture of the in­ci­dent is not clear at this time, but eye­wit­ness­es told the Caribbean Me­dia Cor­po­ra­tion (CMC) that at 4:46 pm (lo­cal time), they had “just heard a big ex­plo­sion” from an air­craft that just land­ed at the Ar­gyle Air­port.

“Fire trucks from the air­port just went to as­sist,” one eye­wit­ness said, adding that smoke had been seen com­ing from the land­ing gear of the air­craft be­fore it went out of sight.

Im­ages from a Face­book live video by Travis Har­ry around 5:10 pm (lo­cal time), showed the air­craft near the east­ern end of the run­way.

Pas­sen­gers from the air­craft were de­plan­ing via stairs and were be­ing board­ed on minibus­es, pre­sum­ably for trans­porta­tion to the ter­mi­nal. Fire trucks al­so were seen near the air­craft as this was tak­ing place.

Au­thor­i­ties are yet to com­ment on the in­ci­dent.

This is the first ma­jor in­ci­dent at the air­port, which was opened on Feb­ru­ary 14, 2017. —KINGSTOWN, St. Vin­cent (CMC)

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Sto­ry by KEN­TON X. CHANCE | Caribbean Me­dia Cor­po­ra­tion (CMC)