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An incident occurred at V.C Bird International Airport where an Inter-Caribbean plane experienced an engine failure during take-off.
The engine of the ATR 45 plane reportedly caught fire shortly after take-off, prompting the pilot to turn back and make an emergency landing.
Fortunately, the pilot was able to safely land the plane back at the airport, and all passengers on board were unharmed.
It is speculated that the plane may have been en route to Barbados before the engine failure occurred.
It was the 5:45pm en route to Tortola
The engine blow up in mid air kids was on board screaming for their life’s mothers and a young pregnant girl are all traumatized now they make this out to be a simple problem but this was a very serious life treating event know a plane engine is on fire in mid air then when we land we had no support had to wait around with little information until we was moved to different hotels