In­cum­bent Point Fortin MP Kennedy Richards Jr says the rerout­ing of flights ar­riv­ing at the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port to To­ba­go, fol­low­ing yes­ter­day’s Amer­i­jet ware­house fire, shows the ef­fec­tive­ness of the Air­ports Au­thor­i­ty and air­line safe­ty pro­to­cols.

Richards apol­o­gised to Point Fortin res­i­dents for his late ar­rival at the Techi­er Vil­lage Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­tre yes­ter­day, where he joined Min­is­ter of Dig­i­tal Trans­for­ma­tion Has­sel Bac­chus to open an ICT Ac­cess Cen­tre. He ex­plained that his de­lay was due to the fire at Amer­i­jet’s fa­cil­i­ty in the air­port’s South Ter­mi­nal, which re­sult­ed in the tem­po­rary sus­pen­sion of all flights.

The Air­ports Au­thor­i­ty had ear­li­er con­firmed that the in­ci­dent trig­gered an im­me­di­ate re­sponse from the Pi­ar­co Fire Sta­tion, sup­port­ed by units from the Ari­ma Fire Sta­tion.