LIAT is carrying out maintenance checks on an aircraft that suffered a main wheel failure during take-off yesterday morning.
Flight LI 774, which left Guyana bound for Barbados, landed safely at Grantley Adams International Airport with no injury to the 43 passengers.
In a statement after the incident, LIAT said: “The aircraft continued to the Grantley Adams International Airport where, as a precautionary measure, emergency services were on standby. The landing was uneventful and the passengers disembarked at the gate in Barbados.”
LIAT suffered a similar incident in December 2010 when an aircraft bound for Puerto Rico from Antigua was forced to make an emergency landing at V.C. Bird International Airport after a wheel fell off shortly after take-off. (LK)
