A Ukrain­ian air­craft de­tained at the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port af­ter au­thor­i­ties dis­cov­ered un­de­clared ex­plo­sives on­board has been cleared to leave Trinidad and To­ba­go fol­low­ing a mul­ti-agency in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

In a me­dia re­lease is­sued to­day, the Air­ports Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go said Flight No. CVK-7078 ar­rived from the Ba­hamas yes­ter­day for a tech­ni­cal re­fu­elling stop. The air­craft was re­port­ed­ly en route to Cape Verde be­fore con­tin­u­ing to Libya.

The Au­thor­i­ty said Im­mi­gra­tion Di­vi­sion of­fi­cers dis­cov­ered the air­craft was trans­port­ing ex­plo­sives that had not been de­clared in keep­ing with es­tab­lished in­ter­na­tion­al avi­a­tion and se­cu­ri­ty pro­to­cols.