A touchdown failure of a small personal plane on the Grantley Adams airport in Barbados has resulted within the South Africa group, their households, commentators, match officers and ICC officers being stranded on the Trinidad airport. The Barbados airport was closed for inspections by the Civil Aviation Authority and the Barbados Police Service.
Moments earlier than they had been about to take off from Trinidad, the pilots obtained the knowledge of the runway closure in Bridgetown.
“It appeared that the touchdown gear of the personal plane didn’t deploy, however it’s at present on the runway at GAIA [Grantley Adams International Airport] safely,” Sharleen Brown, Company Communication Specialist with GAIA, mentioned in a press release. She confirmed that every one three people on board – two passengers and a pilot – had been unhurt.
Passengers on the flight from Trinidad to Barbados had been informed the tentative rescheduled time was 4.30pm, which might quantity to just about six hours of delay. All of the boarded passengers needed to return to the terminal, merely the newest addition to the numerous delays endured by groups on the event.
The worst was when Sri Lanka, South Africa and Eire needed to spend an entire evening on the airport when travelling from Florida to New York. Even Afghanistan, who completed their final Tremendous Eight match within the wee hours of Tuesday, had their flight delayed earlier than enjoying their first T20 World Cup semi-final on Wednesday evening.
