An American Airlines flight from Miami suffered tires incident while landing at Kingstown Argyle Airport.
The flight #AA909 departed Miami Monday, January 20 2025 to to St Vincent and the Grenadines with hundreds of people on board.
The Boeing 737 MAX 8 (registration N328TC) suffered technical issues which led to ‘blown main landing gear tyres’ shorting after landing at around 4:46 pm.
Images shared by a local shows the tyres completely blown off and destroyed.
2025-01-20: American AL Boeing 737 MAX 8 (N328TC, *2023) suffered a double tire burst of its left gear during landing rwy 04 at Kingstown Argyle Intl AP(TVSA), St Vincent+Gr. and came to a safe stop on the runway. None aboard flight #AA909 from Miami was hurt. www.stvincenttimes.com/american-air…
— jacdecnews.bsky.social (@jacdecnews.bsky.social) January 21, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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According to reports, flight 909 came to an abrupt stop soon after landing in St Vincent with eyewitnesses saying that there was a loud bang which came from the aircraft as it was passing the terminal building and then they also saw a lot of smoke coming from the landing gear area of the plane.
Soon after the incident, firefighters responded as the plane continued towards the other end of the runway before coming to a stop.
Sources have also confirmed that a local aviation maintenance company was engaged in replacing the tyres which got damaged on American’s twin-jet Boeing 737 MAX 8 in St Vincent, enabling the plane to continue providing its services.