An­na-Lisa Paul

The crew of a Ukrain­ian air­craft, which land­ed at the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port on Thurs­day night with sev­er­al tonnes of in­dus­tri­al ex­plo­sives on board, was al­lowed to leave Trinidad last night, af­ter fac­ing hours of in­ter­ro­ga­tion by lo­cal and in­ter­na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty au­thor­i­ties.

In a re­lease last evening, the Air­ports Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (AATT) said, “Fol­low­ing ex­ten­sive en­quiries and as­sess­ments con­duct­ed by the rel­e­vant au­thor­i­ties, it was de­ter­mined that no li­a­bil­i­ty should be at­trib­uted to the pi­lot or crew. Con­se­quent­ly, au­tho­ri­sa­tion was grant­ed and the air­craft and crew were cleared to de­part Trinidad and To­ba­go.”