LIAT Flight 557 returns to Antigua airport as precaution

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, March 11, 2010 – The management of LIAT (1974) LTD wishes to inform that LI 557 travelling from Antigua to Dominica on Tuesday 09th March 2010, with 34 passengers on board, returned to the V.C. Bird International Airport shortly after take-off, as a precautionary measure when an indicator light illuminated in the cockpit.

As a precautionary procedure, emergency services were on standby and the landing was uneventful with no damage to passengers or the aircraft.

All of the affected passengers have since been accommodated on other LIAT services.

The aircraft was examined by the company’s maintenance staff and underwent various checks as stipulated by the manufacturer’s maintenance manual and has since been returned to service.

LIAT.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, March 11, 2010 – The management of LIAT (1974) LTD wishes to inform that LI 557 travelling from Antigua to Dominica on Tuesday 09th March 2010, with 34 passengers on board, returned to the V.C. Bird International Airport shortly after take-off, as a precautionary measure when an indicator light illuminated in the cockpit.

As a precautionary procedure, emergency services were on standby and the landing was uneventful with no damage to passengers or the aircraft.

All of the affected passengers have since been accommodated on other LIAT services.

The aircraft was examined by the company’s maintenance staff and underwent various checks as stipulated by the manufacturer’s maintenance manual and has since been returned to service.

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4 Comments

  1. child
    March 12, 2010

    traveling with liat is still safe .we seldom or never hear their plain go down …

  2. strawberry
    March 11, 2010

    FLY YOUR KITE LIAT !!!!!!!

  3. Mac-Arthur Haughton
    March 11, 2010

    ….The aircraft was examined by the company’s maintenance staff and underwent various checks as stipulated by the manufacturer’s maintenance manual and has since been returned to service.

    If you are going to give information give it, don’t play smart. All I want to hear is the problem was identified as “X” and it was caused by “Y” and if it was something that should have been picked up earlier.

    Your company worries me, I think I will fly to St Lucia and take the boat next time.

  4. Anonymous
    March 11, 2010

    bram bram…………… those koshony stat to mashup, mine people camem

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