Caribbean Airlines emergency landing at Piarco

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Footage from inside Flight BW 1541 from Tobago shows an emergency landing at Piarco International Airport on Monday, January 27, 2025.
CAL confirmed an emergency landing in a statement on Monday night but did not go into details about the scope and nature of the incident.
However, passengers have claimed that the ATR 72-600 aircraft suffered an engine failure.
According to CAL, the plane landed safely at Piarco International Airport after departing from Tobago and will be out of rotation pending inspection.

[fokhan_96]

Could only imagine what the landing was like. Normally the touchdown on the runway does be reall hard for those planes.

[pugboy]

it shouldn’t be much different
maybe angled a big since one engine is pulling to that side

[xtech]

[fokhan_96]

Looks like someone forgot to put fuel in the plane... wtf

[david12]

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I tried not to laugh, I really did lol

Good one


On a serious note, those ATR's go back and forth between the islands all day. I believe they are fueled before the first flight and they stay like that because turn around time is very important for those very short hops. Seems like a miscalculation since aircraft never carry the full amount of fuel that they can hold. This should've been spotted by the pilot or first officer on duty unless there was a fault with the fuel 'gauge'. Let's see what comes out of this.

[wingnut]

Looks like someone forgot to put fuel in the plane... wtf

Look how them nearly unalive ah whole plane full of ppl

Those responsible including managers should be charged for attempted murder, that is gross negligence

[redmanjp]

i think the pilot and some technician got suspended

[MaxPower]

Hi aviation experts,

Allyuh know what a MEL is?

Find out what that is first and start from there.

[paid_influencer]

let he who never shut down for lack of gas cast the first stone

[sMASH]

Supposed to be monitoring fuel usage while flying to ensure it's going at an expected rate ... Any faster drop should indicate there is an over consumption or a leak .
Fuel pump and line pressure should tell u if there is a leak.
O2, temperature , thrust(?) should tell u if is an engine problem .

Big time pilot letting pH men shine dem up.????

[MaxPower]

Aviation experts,

Can you post the item that was on the MEL?

[pugboy]

don’t think they really rely on a gauge like a car

generally planes are not fueled up to Full for a number of reasons
pilots keep a log and determine how much fuel is required to suit and when to next fuel up
plus they have to do calculation from gallons/liters(np) to weight

[sMASH]

If that is so then
Tiida 1, plane 0

[pugboy]

one has to remember a fully fueled plane is quite heavy, heavy plane needs more power to fly, more fuel burnt
so hence the reason it is seldom filled to F

i recall a tristar pilot telling me the max takeoff weight on a tristar fully loaded with passengers and fuel was about half from fuel or something like that