Rapper Post Malone’s private jet lands safely after blowing tires during takeoff

A private plane carrying rapper Post Malone of Grapevine landed safely at an airport in Orange County, New York, just before 2 p.m. on Tuesday, according to reports.

The plane carrying Malone and 15 other passengers was a Gulfstream IV N101CV, according to TV reports, and was headed to London.

The plane’s tires reportedly blew out as it departed the Teterboro Airport in New Jersey and the pilot asked to circle above and requested to make an emergency landing, TMZ reported.

The plane had been burning fuel just north of Long Island, New York, before making an emergency landing at New York Stewart International Airport in New Windsor, north of New York City.

No additional details have been released.

The plane had been en route to London, after the rapper took home the Song of the Year Award at the 2018 MTV Video Music Awards on Monday night for his hit single “Rockstar,” featuring 21 Savage. His song “Better Now” was No. 5 on iTunes last week.

Malone attended Grapevine High School, where he was known as Austin Post. He had Vevo’s most-watched music video of 2017 for “Congratulations (featuring Quavo),” which had 309,357,452 views in the United States from Jan. 1 through Nov. 21, according to a report by Texas Monthly.

At one point this year, he was the most-streamed artist in the world, according to radio/music-industry website AllAccess.com. In May of this year, he set a record for most simultaneous Top 20 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, beating The Beatles. All 18 songs from his album “Beerbongs & Bentleys” made the Hot 100, according to Billboard.

This story was originally published August 21, 2018 at 2:16 PM.